A World Without Work
Discourse ZA
English - June 25, 2021 08:53 - 1 hour - 60.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBusiness News News Education economics politics southafrica news philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Automating technologies threaten to usher in a workless future. To many, this is a depressing prognosis, an image of civilization replaced by its machines. But what if an automated future is something to be welcomed rather than feared? Work is a source of misery and oppression for most people, so shouldn’t we do what we can to hasten its demise? In this episode of CwG, Gwen is joined by the philosopher John Danaher to talk about his book “Automation and Utopia.” John makes the case that the rise of automating technologies presents a utopian moment for humankind, providing both the motive and the means to build a better future.
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Automation-Utopia-Human-Flourishing-without/dp/0674984242
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Gwen Ngwenya is a South African politician, Head of Policy of the Democratic Alliance, and host of the podcast Conversations with Gwen. As a Member of Parliament for the Democratic Alliance in the Fifth Parliament, she served on the Standing Committee on Finance. She has also served as COO of the South African Institute of Race Relations, Africa's largest classically liberal think tank.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GwenNgwenya
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John Danaher is a Senior Lecturer at NUI Galway. His research interests are in the areas of legal philosophy, emerging technologies and the future of human society. He is the author of Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work (Harvard University Press, 2019) and the co-editor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications (MIT Press 2017). He has published many papers on different topics, including the risks of advanced AI, the ethics of social robotics, meaning of life and the future of work, and the ethics of human enhancement.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JohnDanaher
Blog/Podcast: https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/
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