Automation and the Future of Work—2

2019/11/30 by Aaron Benanav · 9 citations
Engineering · #Digital Transformation in Industry

paper · doi:10.64590/unr

Abstract

Concluding his two-part analysis of technological development and global labour-market dysfunction, Aaron Benanav rebuts the automation theorists’ call for Universal Basic Income with a counter-proposal. Can we invent the future by working backwards from the world we want to build?

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