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Automation and Utopia : Human Flourishing in a World without Work / / John Danaher.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674984240
  • 9780674242203
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 335/.02 23
LOC classification:
  • HX806 .D35 2019eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674242203

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.

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