{"id":19839,"date":"2015-12-07T03:49:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T11:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/life-in-the-robot-age-when-were-all-unemployed"},"modified":"2017-04-24T23:29:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T06:29:01","slug":"life-in-the-robot-age-when-were-all-unemployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/life-in-the-robot-age-when-were-all-unemployed","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Robot Age: When We\u2019re All Unemployed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-in-the-robot-age-when-were-all-unemployed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll never get a good job, son, if you\u2019re smoking pot all the time!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a scolding you won\u2019t hear in the future. Besides the fact that pot smokers can become president, the future will not require you to get a good job. The traditional motivation to keep your mind orderly and bourgeois will be gone, so let your mind fly its freak flag and wander the Technicolor pathways already cleared by St. John of Patmos, Salvador Dali, and Carl Sagan.<\/p>\n<p>In the near future, we may all be unemployed. We are entering what is generally called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/review-the-second-machine-age-by-erik-brynjolfsson-and-andrew-mcafee\/2014\/01\/17\/ace0611a-718c-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html\">second machine age<\/a>.\u201d And, optimistically speaking, it may become the best thing that ever happened to the human being.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/think-tank\/life-in-the-robot-age-when-were-all-unemployed?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_term=Autofeed\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll never get a good job, son, if you\u2019re smoking pot all the time!\u201d That\u2019s a scolding you won\u2019t hear in the future. Besides the fact that pot smokers can become president, the future will not require you to get a good job. The traditional motivation to keep your mind orderly and bourgeois will be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51257,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions\/51257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}