The year is 2050. It’s five years since the US president handed over the nuclear launch codes to a possibly-sentient artificial intelligence. More tangibly, the AI revolution is all around us in clean and decarbonated air, abundant crops, and the banishing of cancers that slew millions just a generation ago.
Of course, half the world’s adults have no job – besides charity and volunteering – and half again of the rest ‘work’ in the same way spouses of London bankers used to run unprofitable art galleries in the Cotswolds.