Will Robots Set Us Free?

Will Robots Set Us Free? by David Moscrop, Boston Review, February 2018.

“If we have no time to think, to mull, if we have no time to piece together the sudden associations and unexpected, mid-shower insights that are the stuff of independent opinion, then we are less citizens than cursors, easily manipulated, vulnerable to the currents of power.”

"Slouka picks up on the political implications of not just work, but so much work, in part since the cost of labor is foregone idleness, including time to think. “Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, requisite to the construction of a complete human,” he writes, channeling Marcuse and the Frankfurt School.