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ID: 440108
Title: Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Author: Aaron Bastani
Narrator: Shaun Grindell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 07:42:43
Language: English
Release date: 08-25-20
Publisher: Tantor Media
Genres: Business & Economics, Global Politics, Science & Technology, Technology & Engineering
Summary:
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society-beyond work, scarcity, and capitalism
In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury, and happiness-for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities-food, healthcare, and housing-towards zero.
Improvements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life, virtually eliminate disease, and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon.
In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history.