Autofac, Science Fiction and the Future of Work

 

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This panel takes the Future of Work conversation beyond the bromides of today by meditating on yesterday’s visions of our future, as encapsulated by Philip K. Dick’s classic science fiction story “Autofac” and its recent adaptation for Amazon’s “Electric Dreams” video anthology. Participants include Dr. Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, Director of the Good Systems Critical Surveillance Inquiry (CSI) Research Focus Area, and author of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness; Nitin Verma, an advanced graduate student in the School of Information whose research concerns political and scientific misinformation and the ethical issues raised by machine learning technology; and the celebrated cyberpunk writer and UT graduate Bruce Sterling.

You can watch the “Electric Dreams” episode, Autofac, with Amazon Prime!

 

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Bruce Sterling, Neville Hoad, Nitin Verma, Samuel Baker, Simone Browne
AI and Technology, Artistic Labor and the Humanities, Automation & Technological Change, Capitalism & Adjectives, Precarity, Radical Visions, Valuation
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