Business Briefing: why the future is workless

(Work as it is currently understood and as Tim Dunlop points out, has been enormously beneficial for humanity, and yet as an extractive process has been equally damaging in that it has taken humanity to the edge of the abyss. The processes we have adopted have disrupted Earth’s climate system and the Goldilocks-like conditions we have enjoyed for 10 000 years and allowed us to prosper are, because of our voracious behaviour, quickly being eroded – Robert McLean)



Tim Dunlop's new book,
"Why the future is Workless".

When Tim Dunlop, from the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne, started to research the future of work, his economist friends pointed to all the research showing there will still be jobs.

A few years later and Dunlop isn’t so sure. His book, “Why the Future is Workless”, unpicks the research into everything from machines learning to do our jobs to the idea of governments paying us all a universal basic income.

Listen to Tim Dunlop - “Business Briefing: why the future is workless.”