The yr is 2050. It has been five years for the reason that US President handed over the nuclear launch codes to a potentially sentient artificial intelligence. Even more tangible, the AI revolution is throughout us: clean, low-carbon air, bountiful harvests, and the eradication of cancers that killed thousands and thousands only a generation ago.
Of course, half of the world’s adults do not have a job – other than charity and volunteer work – and half of the remainder “work” in the identical way that the spouses of London bankers once ran unprofitable art galleries within the Cotswolds.