Forrest’s article focuses on the future of technology and automation that many academics are claiming can replace massive swaths of careers. This automation can be countered in a way through a universal basic income, however. Adam Forrest, “What Happens When Humans are Obsolete?”, Big Issue, 7 July 2015.
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Santens discusses the ramifications of self-driving vehicles on the American economy in the next few decades and argues that a basic income can help ease the transition into even further technology-driven automation.
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Pat Kane argues: “A basic income may be the way to support those displaced by robots and automation to develop their machine-resistant skills. It might also need a collective revaluing of those caring and creative skills in the first place. Which small nation can you think of that might be capable of such a patient and sustained revaluing? Right, first
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Irani reviews Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee’s book The Second Machine Age, in which they argue, among other things, for a basic income as a solution to increasing automation and technology.
» Read moreIn this post, ‘newsroom’ of the Mistbreaker news argues current strand to further automation urges us to consider BIG seriously. Mistbreaker News, “Is Basic Income a Viable Concept in the Automated World”, November 13th, 2014.
» Read moreThis opinion piece was published by the prestigious German daily ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung’ (18 May 2012). Frank Rieger, a speaker of the German Chaos Computer Club, discusses an upcoming revolution and the fact that we are able to control its consequences: if robots and algorithms replace us in the labour market, they should also substitute us as taxpayers. The current
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