The last job on Earth: imagining a fully automated world

Machines could take 50% of our jobs in the next 30 years, according to scientists.

While we can’t predict the future, we can imagine a world without work – one where those who own the tech get rich from it and everyone else ekes out a living, propped up by an increasingly fragile state. Meet Alice, holder of the last recognisable job on Earth, trying to make sense of her role in an automated world.

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[ansrhl]

I am a software engineer researching on automation of software. Basically, I am working towards making myself obsolete. :|

[allreuben]

I wish they did a series. The graphic style, storyboard, sfx and music had me engrossed. A pleasurable watch it was.

[lazijix]

The animation is absolutely lovely tho. The art, the choice of color, and the background music. A terrifying possibility delivered in an absolutely stunning way.

[reauguimo]

I don't get why, with all that technology and Catbot 2.0, the human kind still have poverty and food production problems. If everything goes bad as the video shows, the problem isn't with the machines...

[ChristianJiang]

In the future, this video will look like how the prediction of 2015 in "Back to the future" looks like to us now...

the last job on the planet will probably be the artists.

[dangerdave]

I think the saddest part is that even though we create the technology to make our lives easy we end up making it even harder for other people .

[safiullahleghari]

imagine people in the future watching this masterpiece and appreciating it condescendingly.

[kingdomgeasslover]

Meanwhile the porn industry is still doing great

[YoloSwagger]

We wouldnt need money if everything was made for us

[ajpello]

This is happening to me in real time at my current job. My tasks are being automated 1 by 1 that I get or do. We have an RPA Team in house who go through each segment to review their tasks for automation so we can focus on "higher value work". To this day after almost a year, I have received no "higher value" tasks that have been safe from automation. That's just code for being laid off anyway.

[davidhood]

Robots: Exist
Andrew Yang: Allow me to introduce myself.

[Akitoscorpio]

Weird I thought the last job would be basically "Guy that fixes the robots when they break"

But if you really think about it, even that could eventually automated.

[adubever]

Bottom Line: the "labor for income" game is slowly coming to an end.

[lostusaslambus]

What few fail to realize is when the corpotations no longer need us to work for them we will return to what we originally were; makers, artists, and tradesmen. When society no longer tell us what we have to be and do to be valuable we will create ourselves.

[Darth_Insidious]

Robots take over the world and humans retreat into a great simulation to find meaning in life.

[jehezz]

The last job on Earth: Making dank memes

[HieroOnymos]

*“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”*

–Albert Einstein

[Io-ikyv]

Human greatest achievement will be its own downfall ironically.

[ramseynjire]

They still didn't tell us what the last job in the world would be...