The Lights in the Tunnel - Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future

What if technology progresses to the point where a substantial fraction of the jobs now performed by people are instead performed autonomously by machines or computers? Is that likely, or even possible? And if it is, what are the implications for our economy?

In this book, we are going to explore what increasing technological advancement, and in particular job automation, could mean to the economies of developed countries like the United States and also to the world economy as a whole. To do this, we are going to start by creating an imaginary simulation  (or  mental  video  game)  that  should  provide some very useful insight into what we can expect in the future.