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In what’s increasingly becoming my normal response to any new term’s first CS lecture, allow me to present,

Some More Thoughts from the guy who will unintentionally help to usher in the age in which most human work is redundant:

If you are doing the same thing hour after hour, day after day, or even year after year - we’re coming for you first. If you interface with people indirectly (phone, email, chat client), and don’t need to move physical objects around - double for you.

businesses are not going to need people, eventually. They’ll need an idea, setup and maintenance. Ops is going to go away. Executive functions will go away. Probably not in my lifetime. In historical terms, soon.

The history of techno-cultural revolutions will read as industrial - digital - automated. This shit will define our century.

I for one would like not to continue the work of filtering capital into the accounts of the unusually wealthy. If only 1% of people end up influencing / participating in the economy proper as anything other than consumers, the other 99% will still be people, will have no less right to live and to eat and to pursue happiness.

So would some socialist / humanist / anything-other-than money-grubbing neo-con troll-men people please get to the front in tech? Because the bros are going to destroy civilisation otherwise. The gig economy is a lie perpetrated on the desperate by the greedy; it exists only to undermine and destroy institutions which are less unfair in the distribution of wealth to working humans, and will not outlive this purpose in its current shape.

When they are done, there will be nothing. This is how a global economy eats its own legs.