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{{review}} | {{review|A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond|Daniel Susskind|||Help, help, we’re all going to die}} | ||
In which {{author|Daniel Susskind}} grasps a flagon of {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s home-made Kool-Aid and bets the farm. He will doubtless find enough [[General Counsel]] wishing to seem at the forefront of the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance but, like the consistent output of his father over the last three decades, {{br|A World Without Work}} will not signpost, let alone dent, the immutable trajectory of modern employment, failing as it does to understand how humans, organisations and economies work and ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the history of technological development, ancient and modern. | In which {{author|Daniel Susskind}} grasps a flagon of {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s home-made Kool-Aid and bets the farm. He will doubtless find enough [[General Counsel]] wishing to seem at the forefront of the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance but, like the consistent output of his father over the last three decades, {{br|A World Without Work}} will not signpost, let alone dent, the immutable trajectory of modern employment, failing as it does to understand how humans, organisations and economies work and ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the history of technological development, ancient and modern. | ||