Automation and Utopia

Automation and Utopia
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780674984240
ISBN-13 : 0674984242
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Book Synopsis Automation and Utopia by : John Danaher

Download or read book Automation and Utopia written by John Danaher and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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