What Do We Do With Our Time?

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i'm assuming that there is either basic income or some version of that, where every one has enough money to survive and get through the day. And then i'm looking at tha kind of meaning, what do we do with our time? Ten, right? Yo. Magine that we had no material wants. So as i mentioned earlier, the sense of mastery, social contribution, community building, social recognition, can we find ho things in games? And i think we can. You can get a sense of mastery over games, a sense of skill over ame, over the rules of a game and competency in the performance of a game. In fact, its one of the main

Humans build machines, in part, to relieve themselves from the burden of work on difficult, repetitive tasks. And yet, despite the fact that machines are everywhere, most of us are still working pretty hard. But maybe that’s about to change. Futurists like John Danaher believe that society is finally on the brink of making a transition to a world in which work would be optional, rather than mandatory — and he thinks that’s a very good thing. It will take some adjusting, personally as well as economically, but he envisions a future in which human creativity and artistic impulse can flourish in a world free of the demands of working for a living. We talk about what that would entail, whether it’s realistic, and what comes next.

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John Danaher received an LLM degree from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. from University College, Cork. He is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research is situated at the overlap of legal studies and philosophy, and frequently involves questions of technology, automation, and the future. He is the coeditor of Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications, and author of the recent book Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work. He writes frequently for publications such as The Atlantic, The Guardian, and The Irish Times, and is the host of his own podcast, Philosophical Disquisitions.