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[[File:Dinocheckers.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Our future. Pity the poor [[robo-slave]] (out of picture): having to watch the idiot [[meatware]] mangle a basic Spassky/Fischer opening must be some kind of ''torture''.]]}} | [[File:Dinocheckers.jpg|450px|thumb|center|Our future. Pity the poor [[robo-slave]] (out of picture): having to watch the idiot [[meatware]] mangle a basic Spassky/Fischer opening must be some kind of ''torture''.]]}}This idea, propagated by [[thought leader]]s like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}},<ref>{{br|The Singularity is Near}}</ref> John Cryan<ref>[[Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated - technology article|Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated]].</ref> and dashing young heir to the Susskind clairvoyance dynasty {{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> posits that [[Chatbot|robots]] and [[artificial intelligence]] will, shortly, supplant the need for human labour ''altogether''. We, the [[meatware]], will shortly be [[Technological unemployment|technologically redundant]]. The ''lot'' of us. | ||
This idea, propagated by [[thought leader]]s like {{author|Ray Kurzweil}},<ref>{{br|The Singularity is Near}}</ref> John Cryan<ref>[[Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated - technology article|Rumours of our demise are greatly exaggerated]].</ref> and dashing young heir to the Susskind clairvoyance dynasty {{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> posits that [[Chatbot|robots]] and [[artificial intelligence]] will, shortly, supplant the need for human labour ''altogether''. We, the [[meatware]], will shortly be [[Technological unemployment|technologically redundant]]. The ''lot'' of us. | |||
Which poses the question: seeing as we won’t be working [[Jacquard loom]]s, wiping arses, writing [[A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond - Book Review|wishful dystopian techno-political tracts]] or [[Change manager|managing business change programmes]] anymore, ''what to do with all the spare time we’ll suddenly have?'' | Which poses the question: seeing as we won’t be working [[Jacquard loom]]s, wiping arses, writing [[A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond - Book Review|wishful dystopian techno-political tracts]] or [[Change manager|managing business change programmes]] anymore, ''what to do with all the spare time we’ll suddenly have?'' | ||
On this view there be nothing left to do: we will all just loaf around, playing [[chess]] and drinking grappa the way Mediterranean pensioners always have. Sounds great, doesn’t it! Especially if you don’t dwell on the thought that your [[robo-slave]] could wipe the floor with you at [[chess]], too, if it felt like it. | On this view there be nothing left to do: we will all just loaf around, playing [[chess]] and drinking grappa the way Mediterranean pensioners always have, only with robo-slaves hovering around to serve the booze and wipe our arses. Sounds great, doesn’t it! Especially if you don’t dwell on the thought that your [[robo-slave]] could wipe the floor with you at [[chess]], too, if it felt like it. | ||
In any case: ''nice lack of work, if you can get it''. | In any case: ''nice lack of work, if you can get it''. | ||
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*[[This time is different]] | *[[This time is different]] | ||
*[[Perspective chauvinism]] | *[[Perspective chauvinism]] | ||
*[[Systems theory] | *[[Systems theory]] | ||
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