There’s a theme that runs through some science fiction (I’m thinking [mistakenly?]
Rob Friesel
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Super interesting notion; I’ll look into those titles. Brings to mind an essay by Umair Haque about trickle down innovation.

If we’re to become those enlightened workers — spending less hours each week but on something we very much want to be doing — we need to use these magic powers of engineering (and design, and planning, and research, etc) that we possess and build great things, and not just video games or the 50th Todo app. We need to build things that will automate those jobs on the far left of the spectrum.