The dream of technology is to free "us" from the drudgery of work. The "clean" version of this, as opposed to the way it usually works in practice, is supposed to be a world in which machines do all the drudgery, even including the drudgery of creating their replacements in a toxic "evolution." This freedom "should" be spread around equably, so say the progressives; or smugly held for "our side" as furtively maintained by the retentives. In either case so much gets left unexamined. The entire enterprise remains firmly within the land of wishes, far removed from the way things are, no matter how the tenets of
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The dream of technology is to free "us" from the drudgery of work. The "clean" version of this, as opposed to the way it usually works in practice, is supposed to be a world in which machines do all the drudgery, even including the drudgery of creating their replacements in a toxic "evolution." This freedom "should" be spread around equably, so say the progressives; or smugly held for "our side" as furtively maintained by the retentives. In either case so much gets left unexamined. The entire enterprise remains firmly within the land of wishes, far removed from the way things are, no matter how the tenets of