I would love to see everyone have more free time.
And switch to 4 day work weeks.
That would give everyone 3 day weekeds EVERY WEEK. and you could pursue other business opportunities or hobbies.
One word of caution: Terminator.
Then there’s the overlooked The Forbin Project.
“They took our jerbs!”
“technological change has been associated with a large reduction in working hours.”
Not my hours. Technology just gives me a chance to compete with Chinese and Mexican slave labor.
AI as far as I am concerned is automatic ignorance. Soon they will write the code and send it to machines to make new machines. That replace people at their jobs. Then robots will be made to replace your friends. Without human interaction the race will die. Machines will continue and refer to the great creator. Well a least they will think were gods. Even though we destroyed ourselves.
I work at a Help Desk. Without computers I would be unhappy at work.
. . . at the age of 55, with kids in college. If both parents are in that position and there’s already college debt . . .It’s a lot easier to be sanguine about that situation if you are pretty certain that won’t be you.