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Living in a world without work

Cohabitation with machines is an inevitable future that awaits us. But is it going to be easy? Daniel Susskind is a doomsayer. In a good way though. His 2016 book, The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts told us in no uncertain terms the unpleasant truth we have been avoiding ever since we’ve figured out machines can do most of our jobs —

Human exceptionalism is kaput, especially in white-collar professions.