From the Journal of Evolution and Technology, a special section on technological unemployment and the basic income guarantee, including Riccardo Campa (Jagiellonian): Technological Growth and Unemployment: A Global Scenario Analysis; John Danaher (Keele): Sex Work, Technological Unemployment and the Basic Income Guarantee; and Gary E. Marchant, Yvonne A. Stevens and James M. Hennessy (ASU): Technology, Unemployment and Policy Options: Navigating the Transition to a Better World. From Financial Times, a series on robots in the workplace, including a look at how robot makers are warned over fears that automation will “steal jobs”; and China, once the manual labour “workshop of the world”, has become the largest buyer of industrial robots. Michael R. Strain on how robot workers could tear America’s social fabric. Enslave the robots and free the poor: Martin Wolf on how the prospect of far better lives depends on how the gains are produced and distributed. Andrew Leonard on Google, Foxconn, and our new robot overlords. Paul Starr reviews The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee (and more). Homo Sacer: James Bridle on how the hologram is the ultimate 21st Century worker — fully virtualised, pre-programmed, untiring, spectacular. Machines v. Lawyers: As information technology advances, the legal profession faces a great disruption. Robots are invading the news business, and it’s great for journalists. Bill Gates: Yes, robots really are about to take your jobs. When robots take our jobs, humans will be the new 1% — here's how to fight back. Fear not the coming of the robots: Historically, technology lifted us all by creating new jobs and greater efficiency. There's a World Cup for robots, and the goal is to defeat humanity.
