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{{ | {{A|book review|[[File:Dole-queue.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Passtimes of the future, as imagined by {{author|Daniel Susskind}}]]}} | ||
[[File:Dole-queue.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Passtimes of the future, as imagined by {{author|Daniel Susskind}}]] | |||
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In which {{author|Daniel Susskind}} grasps a flagon of {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s home-made Kool-Aid and bets the farm. | In which {{author|Daniel Susskind}} grasps a flagon of {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}’s home-made Kool-Aid and bets the farm. | ||
Susskind will doubtless find enough [[general counsel]] who are anxious to seem at the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci-fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance but {{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 or economies work, while ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the whole history of technology, from the plough. | Dr. Susskind, scion of the Susskind Futurology Clan, will doubtless find enough [[general counsel]] who are anxious to seem at the technological vanguard — and interested mugs like me, who are suckers for sci-fi alternative histories — at least to recoup his advance but {{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 or economies work, while ignoring — neigh, ''contradicting'' — the whole history of technology, from the plough. | ||
Technology has ''never'' destroyed overall labour, and Susskind gives no good grounds for believing it will suddenly start now. | Technology has ''never'' destroyed overall labour, and Susskind gives no good grounds for believing it will suddenly start now. | ||