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Seeing as we won’t be needed to operate [[Jacquard loom]]s, wipe arses, write [[A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond - Book Review|wishful dystopian techno-political tracts]] or [[Change manager|manage business change programmes]], we will have no option but instead to loaf around, playing each other at [[chess]] and drinking grappa, the way Mediterranean pensioners have since time immemorial. | Seeing as we won’t be needed to operate [[Jacquard loom]]s, wipe arses, write [[A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond - Book Review|wishful dystopian techno-political tracts]] or [[Change manager|manage business change programmes]], we will have no option but instead to loaf around, playing each other at [[chess]] and drinking grappa, the way Mediterranean pensioners have since time immemorial. | ||
Sounds great, doesn’t it! (Best not to dwell on the thought that the [[robo-slave]] serving the grappa and wiping our arses could wipe the floor with us at [[chess]] | Sounds great, doesn’t it! (Best not to dwell on the thought that the [[robo-slave]] serving the grappa and wiping our arses could also wipe the floor with us at [[chess]], if it felt like it.) | ||
Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, you would not be alone: there are at least two of us. | Now if something about this scenario nudges your implausibility hooter, you would not be alone: there are at least two of us. | ||