The Future of Work

From the Atlantic:

This moment we”™re in right now””where humans and bots find themselves in an unprecedented admixture””is one more step in the automation of different kinds of human labor. In the quiet, white-collar automation that swept the world in the last quarter of the 20th century, the messiness of human processes required many intermediate steps in the transition from paper and human to computer and computer. Much of what service work used to be was automated over the last few decades. Now, computers make the decisions, and the main role of the human is to deliver this information after pressing some keys on a computer.

Governments are looking into universal basic income programs because they can see where the technology advances are leading: to a society where most will not have work of value.