Opening the stacks
Opening the stacks
Highlights the shift to solar power and automated maintenance, as experienced by Leia on Kaua’i island.
2 chapters across 2 books
The 'Preamble' chapter of 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism' introduces a series of vignettes featuring diverse characters—Yang, Chris, Leia, Peter, and Federica—each embodying different facets of contemporary technological and economic transformations. These narratives illustrate the impacts of automation, AI, space industry expansion, renewable energy, and digital personal assistants on work, social relations, and future anxieties. The chapter sets the stage for exploring how technological progress intersects with capitalism, labor, and societal change.
Chapter 6, "The Wider Wave," surveys the broad and accelerating integration of advanced technologies such as autonomous robots, quantum computing, and renewable energy into various sectors. It highlights specific innovations including Amazon's autonomous warehouse robots, robotic surgery, quantum supremacy claims by Google, and the decreasing costs and rising adoption of solar power and nuclear fusion. The chapter underscores the transformative potential and expanding scope of these technologies in reshaping industries and addressing global challenges.