Automation and redefining work
May 23, 2021•19 min•Season 1Ep. 141
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Episode description
Machines are beginning to replace human judgement and other cognitive tasks, not just physical labour, seeing millions of unemployed in coming decades. What will become of the unemployed masses? Idleness and depression? Or bountiful travel and leisure? And how will we distribute welfare equally?
Featured:
Dikai Liu, Director, Robotics Institute, UTS
Benjamin Hunnicutt, historian, professor of work and leisure, Iowa University
Producer/Presenter: Julia Carr-Catzel
Music: Epidemic sound
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