Technology & Prose

Nikita Aggarwal

Each episode, host Nikita Aggarwal goes between the covers with authors of books about technology. New episodes every second Thursday. Follow us on Twitter @TechnologyProse @nikitaggarwal

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Technology & Prose

Episodes (11)

Apr 15, 2021 John Danaher on Automation and Utopia
Apr 8, 2021 Sushma Raman on The Coming Good Society
Mar 25, 2021 Aaron Roth on The Ethical Algorithm

Technology & Prose

Apr 15, 2021
48 minutes
44 MB

John Danaher, Senior Lecturer in Law at NUI Galway, discusses his new book, Automation and Utopia: Human Flourishing in a World Without Work. On the season finale of Technology & Prose, John Danaher joins host Nikita Aggarwal to talk about the meaning of work (1:13), the automatability and automation of work (2:36), why we should welcome automation — the case for technological unemployment (10:02), the gig economy, Uber, and the limits to improving the conditions of work (13:25), building a post-work future - the ‘cyborg utopia’ and the ‘virtual utopia’ (19:25), problems with cyborgization (22:44), the meaning of utopia (28:00), the concept of virtual reality (29...

Technology & Prose

John Danaher on Automation and Utopia

Nikita Aggarwal

00:00 -47:45