Perhaps not work-free, but certainly one in which there will be more humans than jobs that need to be performed by them. That's what worries this author in The New York Daily News. He proposes Milton Friedman's guaranteed income as a potential solution. I'm willing to go along with that, but it would take nothing short of a true political revolution to make it happen.
Then again, maybe that's how the revolution begins. With robots. All of this does raise anew an ever-present question: does technology work for us, or we for it? Let's hope we get the answer to that right.
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