TY  - BOOK
AU  - Danaher,John
TI  - Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World without Work / 
SN  - 9780674984240
AV  - HX806 .D35 2019eb
U1  - 335/.02 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Human security
KW  - Human-robot interaction
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Technological unemployment
KW  - Utopias
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Social
KW  - sh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674242203
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674242203/original
ER  -