X006: Future Express | Listener Questions and Calum Chace Followup

In this Express episode Jon and Ted answer a listener question about the future of citizenship, and wonder how it will be challenged and whether it's even necessary at all. We respond to another question asking for a beginner's reading list. We follow up on our discussion with Calum Chace and talk through Jon's skepticism of technological unemployment problems. How long will the era of technological unemployment last? Long enough to matter or is it another blip on the road to superintelligence? Will robot housekeepers be replaced all at once or piecemeal as things like Roombas get better? Is it practical to think most people will become digital nomads or are people driven to acquire status to the point that an endless pyramid of positional goods can keep capitalism going forever? How about the meaning of an infinite movie?