A World Without People

A World Without People

Machines have the potential to make life easier and liberate us from the burden of toil. But in our world, they increasingly liberate work from its pesky dependence on humanity. We’ve become the burden. And it is simply too much to bear.It’s a problem I first encountered on long car rides as a kid, when my dad would play old Ray Bradbury radio dramas. There’s a line from “Night Call, Collect” that I can still hear echoing whenever I think about …