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[[File:Dinocheckers.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Our future. Pity the poor robot serving the grappa and periodically wipe our arses: having to watch the idiot [[meatware]] mangle a basic Spassky/Fischer opening will be some kind of ''torture''.]] | [[File:Dinocheckers.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Our future. Pity the poor robot serving the grappa and periodically wipe our arses: having to watch the idiot [[meatware]] mangle a basic Spassky/Fischer opening will be some kind of ''torture''.]] | ||
}}The idea, propagated by [[thought leader]]s like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}<ref>{{br|The Singularity is Near}}</ref> and latterly {{author|Daniel Susskind}}<ref>{{br|A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond}}. See also {{author|David Goodhart}}’s more thoughtful (but still, on this point, misguided) {{br|Head Hand Heart}}.</ref> that [[Chatbot|robots]] and [[artificial intelligence]] will entirely supplant the need for human labour, and in the near term | }}The idea, propagated by [[thought leader]]s like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}<ref>{{br|The Singularity is Near}}</ref> and latterly {{author|Daniel Susskind}}<ref>{{br|A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond}}. See also {{author|David Goodhart}}’s more thoughtful (but still, on this point, misguided) {{br|Head Hand Heart}}.</ref> that [[Chatbot|robots]] and [[artificial intelligence]] will entirely supplant the need for human labour, and in the near term. | ||
Seeing as the [[meatware]] will no longer be needed to operate [[Jacquard loom]]s, wipe bottoms, write wishfully dystopian technological tracts or formulate business change programmes, we will loaf around instead playing [[chess]] and drinking grappa in the Peloponnese, like modern-day Greek pensioners. It sounds great, doesn’t it! | |||
But [[this time is different]]. | Let’s not dwell on the thought that the robo-slave engaged to serve the grappa and wipe our arses could wipe the floor with us at chess, too, if it really wanted to. | ||
Now if something about this idea nudges your implausibility hooter, you would not be alone: there are at least two of us. | |||
For one thing, our recent experience in which, from our [[perspective chauvinism|present vantage point]], there has been some kind of technological [[Cambrian explosion]], so far has had quite the opposite effect. So, for that matter, has ancient history: the unerring consquence of technological revolution has been ''more'' work. | |||
But, but, but: ''[[this time is different]]''. | |||
The theory of [[technological unemployment]] assumes: | The theory of [[technological unemployment]] assumes: | ||
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*[[Rubbish maxims]] | *[[Rubbish maxims]] | ||
*[[Technological unemployment]] | *[[Technological unemployment]] | ||
*[[This time is different]] | |||
*[[Perspective chauvinism]] | |||
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