The Siren Call of Undefined Possibilities

On the false promise of being “freed up” for “more challenging, interesting work.”

In one of the most persistent and arguably criminally false myths of technological development is that it will “free people up” to do more “interesting” or “challenging” tasks.

The funny thing is that if you look at how the evolution of labour has panned out, there’s as much drudgery now as there was a few millennia ago. Even if it takes a different form…