As a fellow of the Racism and Technology Center, Emma-Lee Amponsah created an audio experience about ‘post-work futurism’. She just published the audio as a podcast.
You can listen to it here (it is mostly in Dutch):
In an accompanying essay, Emma-Lee explores the technological promise to create a post-work society. Our Center’s Jill Toh criticism of this idea is quoted in the piece:
There is this narrative about technology automation that it will help us and liberate us. That once we have certain systems in place, then we don’t have to work. And I reject that premise. Because all of these systems [that allow us to work less] have human labour behind them, located in the global majority. Including where we reside, where there is a lot of labour that goes into automating things to make it appear as though it is automated. (…) So, post-work for whom?
Do read the whole essay, which ranges from the Luddites to the Longtermists, from Universal Basic Income to Solar Punk, and asks the question: who is truly served by this technological future?
See: Will AI take our jobs? And should we even consider that a problem? at Emma-Lee Amponsah’s site.