The End of Work

Radio Open Source discusses a timely topic—the end of work: The jobless economy: a fully automated, engineered, robotic system that doesn't need you, or me either. Anything we can do, machines can do better — surgery, warfare, farming, finance. What's to do? Shall we smash the machines, or go to the beach, or finally learn to play the piano? Economists predict that 50% of US jobs could be automated in a decade or two. Big fun show with tech wizard Ray Kurzweil and the economist Andrew McAfee. We need to hear the worker's voice, too. Will a machine take your job someday? And in a world without work, what would you do?

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