Excellent article. The whole idea of a post-work society is interesting, because the way our economy is structured means that unemployment on a large scale is always going to be bad for those of us who find ourselves without a job. But if we look into the far future, and consider that in theory, there is no job a human can do that a machine can't do equally well, it seems logical that eventually we'll end up with a post-Singularity world where every task needed to keep the world running is done by machines. The question is, how are we going to transition from our current economy to the new machine-led one?

If machines take over one job at a time, as they have been doing since the Industrial Revolution, surely unemployment will gradually worsen as fewer and fewer jobs need to be done by humans? I know that people have been prophesying this kind of thing since the Luddites, and maybe it won't happen this decade or even this century, as jobs in new areas of technology spring up. Eventually, though, we'll have to find some way to adapt, whether it's creating made-up jobs just so people can earn, or adopting some kind of entirely new system.