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Danaher, John

Automation and Utopia : Human Flourishing in a World without Work / / John Danaher. - 1 online resource (288 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. The Autumn of Humanity -- PART ONE. Automation -- 2. The Case for Technological Unemployment -- 3. Why You Should Hate Your Job -- 4. Giving Techno-Pessimism Its Due -- PART TWO. Utopia -- 5. In Search of Utopia -- 6. The Cyborg Utopia -- 7. The Virtual Utopia -- Epilogue: The Unending Quest -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future, but John Danaher argues that this can be a good thing. A world without work may be a kind of utopia, free of the misery of the job and full of opportunities for creativity and exploration. If we play our cards right, automation could be the path to idealized forms of human flourishing.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674984240 9780674242203

Standard No.: 10.4159/9780674242203 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Forecasting.
Human security.
Human-robot interaction.
Quality of life.
Technological unemployment.
Utopias.
PHILOSOPHY / Social

LC Class. No.: HX806 / .D35 2019eb

Dewey Class. No.: 335/.02