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Where Tomorrow Meets Today

by Hari Kunzru,

“Let me persuade you to come to the place where tomorrow meets today,” a voice-over invites near the beginning of Design for Dreaming, a General Motors promotional film from 1956.…

The Crisis of Work

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Hari Kunzru, Erik Baker

It’s more complicated than “take this job and shove it”

Routine Maintenance

by Meghan O’Gieblyn,

Embracing habit in an automated world

Is Poverty Necessary?

by Harper’s Magazine,

Who generates value in the modern economy, and who should benefit?

Is Poverty Necessary?

by Marilynne Robinson,

An idea that won’t go away

Turndown Service

From reviews, published on TripAdvisor, of the Henn-na Hotel, a robot-run resort in Japan that laid off more than half its automated workforce in January. Henn-na bills itself as a…