Automation and utopia : human flourishing in a world without work /

Human obsolescence is imminent. The factories of the future will be dark, staffed by armies of tireless robots. The hospitals of the future will have fewer doctors, depending instead on cloud-based AI to diagnose patients and recommend treatments. The homes of the future will anticipate our wants an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Danaher, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Utopias.
Technological unemployment.
Quality of life.
Human security.
Forecasting.
Human-robot interaction.
Utopias
Quality of Life
Forecasting
Utopies.
Chômage technologique.
Qualité de la vie.
Sécurité humaine.
Prévision.
Interaction homme-robot.
quality of life.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
Human-robot interaction
Human security
Quality of life
Technological unemployment
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The autumn of humanity
  • Part I. Automation
  • 2. The case for technological unemployment
  • 3. Why you should hate your job
  • 4. Giving techno-pessimism its due
  • Part II. Utopia
  • 5. In search of utopia
  • 6. The cyborg utopia
  • 7. The virtual utopia
  • Epilogue: The unending quest.

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