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Automation and redefining work

Think: Digital Futures

English - May 23, 2021 05:13 - 18 minutes - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Machines are beginning to replace human judgement and other cognitive tasks, not just physical labour, seeing millions of unemployed in coming decades. What will become of the unemployed masses? Idleness and depression? Or bountiful travel and leisure? And how will we distribute welfare equally?

Featured:
Dikai Liu, Director, Robotics Institute, UTS
Benjamin Hunnicutt, historian, professor of work and leisure, Iowa University

Producer/Presenter: Julia Carr-Catzel

Music: Epidemic sound

Machines are beginning to replace human judgement and other cognitive tasks, not just physical labour, seeing millions of unemployed in coming decades. What will become of the unemployed masses? Idleness and depression? Or bountiful travel and leisure? And how will we distribute welfare equally?


Featured:

Dikai Liu, Director, Robotics Institute, UTS

Benjamin Hunnicutt, historian, professor of work and leisure, Iowa University


Producer/Presenter: Julia Carr-Catzel


Music: Epidemic sound