The Implications of Automation and Artificial Intelligence for the Future

Technology that promises this kind of rapturous fulfillment of all human desire exists to a considerable degree even now. It is creating the very harms that will make people more and more desperate to find something to anchor them. The consequences of automation i think unarguably at this point will be a kind of relentless loss of the need for human labor. If we don't destroy ourselves with technology we will be putting ourselves out of a job then the challenges of wealth inequality are huge.