Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics at CUNY, Queens, author of Life Inc., Present Shock, and more more

There's a mismatch between the job market and the meeting of human needs. There will always be work to do; there just won't be paying jobs for it.

Old people need young people to spend time with them; the topsoil needs to be managed; kids need to be supervised and toilet trained; food needs to be prepared; spaceships need to be built so we can explore other planets and create settlements before this one dies. People will still have work to do.

There may not be enough for everyone to have eight hours of stuff to do each day, but they can share what work there is so that everyone can have some feeling of satisfaction.