What we talk about, when we talk about work
For many of us, the term work still means being employed or assigned by someone, to deliver something, usually at an office and for some form of payment. But this is about to change completely. AI and robots will replace almost all the traditional jobs we created in past centuries, and on the other hand, most anybody will be able to build nearly any kind of service or product.
So how does that change our idea of what work is? Here are three insights that put you on track of why things are changing and what will come instead. View more insights in Duckling
Gershenfeld’s: Digital fabrication and the future of work
View it in 2 minutes: Alan and Joel Gershenfeld have been part of pioneering the Fablab network grown out of MIT. In this piece the explain how decentralized fabrication can make people largely self-sufficient, and why this will change our idea of work immensely. View on Duckling
Joi Ito: Designing our complex future with machines
View it in 3 minutes: We should learn from our history of trying to apply over-reductionist science to society, and embrace the real world that artists, biologists, and liberal arts and humanities are familiar with — argues MIT Medialab director Joi Ito in this manifesto, that he originally published as a blog post a couple of years ago. View on Duckling
Douglas Rushkoff: Universal basic income is Silicon Valley’s latest scam
View it in 2 minutes: The idea that we should all have a universal basic income once robots and AI take over manual labor looks like just another way of enslaving people to author Douglas Rushkoff. He argues that we can create a better system based on assets rather than an allowance. View on Duckling
