Mike Masnick: Exploring the future of work through science fiction

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What kind of jobs will artificial intelligence create, and how will new technologies affect our lives — for better or for worse — going forward? Even many techno-optimists have difficulty answering questions like this with any specificity, because the future is hard to predict. So today I’m speaking with Mike Masnick to explore how technology will affect the future, with respect to employment and other topics such as content moderation. Mike is the founder and CEO of Floor64 and the editor of the Techdirt blog. Recently, he co-edited a volume of short stories released by the Copia Institute — Working Futures: 14 Speculative Stories about the Future of Work . This collection of stories portrays a wide variety of possible worlds that technological progress could create, with both optimistic and pessimistic predictions. You can also check out the transcript of this podcast here .

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