Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work

by John Danaher

Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. But this can be a good thing--if we play our cards right.

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 and needs and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674984242
• ISBN13: 9780674984240
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.3"