We will all have more leisure time in the future: Difference between revisions

[[File:Dinocheckers.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Our future. Pity the poor robot whose job it will be to serve the grappa and periodically wipe our arses: Watching us mangle a basic Spassky/Fischer opening will be ''torture''.]]  

}}The idea, propagated by [[thought leader]]s like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}}<ref>{{br|The Singularity is Near}}</ref> and latterly {{author|Daniel Susskind}}<br>{{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 problem: there’s even a machine to play chess for you.