Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies

Machines may help bring about a Post-Scarcity Utopia, assuming they don't take over instead, and we dream of a future that is a Post-Scarcity Utopia, but its dark reflection is the Post-Discontent society, one where through deception or brainwashing people do not even known how they are being deprived or oppressed.

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Credits:
Machine Overlords & Post-Discontent Societies
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Episode 273a; January 17, 2021
Produced, Written, and Narrated by Isaac Arthur

Editors:
Jason Burbank
Jerry Guern    • Paleontology - by Jerry Guern  
Keith Blockus
Matthew Campbell

Cover Art:
Jakub Grygier https://www.artstation.com/jakub_grygier

Graphics:
Jeremy Jozwik https://www.artstation.com/zeuxis_of_...
LegionTech Studios

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator