Automation and utopia : human flourishing in a world without work / John Danaher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danaher, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Utopias.

Technological unemployment.

Quality of life.

Human security.

Forecasting.

Human-robot interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780674983403

0674983408

9780674242203

0674242203

OCLC:

1114334813