Convergence08: Hughes and LaTorra on Digital Serfs and Cyborg Buddha
Connections being drawn: Speculations about work, leisure, income and automation (very topical given Marshal Brain's recent talk at Singularity Summit). Future issues include ongoing technological and cultural globalization, along with the impact of robotics and expert systems and the potential for structural unemployment. We have to plan for radical economic dislocation and take this scenario seriously. We need to have a renegotiation about leisure and work. Couple of ways to deal with this: