Robots Will Steal Your Job

Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK is an audiobook that explores the impact of technological advances on our lives, what it means to be happy, and provides suggestions on how to avoid a systemic collapse. Written by Federico Pistono and read by Ian R Buck.

The Purpose of Life

Episode #17

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If our life's purpose is not the work we do, then what is it?

Chapter Index

00:00 | Intro
00:25 | Chapter Begins
08:18 | Outro

References

  1. The Essential 20: Twenty Components of an Excellent Health Care Team, Dianne Dukette and David Cornish, 2009. RoseDog Books. pp. 72-73.
  2. The New York Magazine Environmental Teach-In, Elizabeth Barlow, 30 March 1970. New York Magazine. p. 30.
    http://books.google.com/books?id=cccDAAAAMBAJ\&printsec=frontcover\#PPA30,M1. Fuller was of course also an architect, an engineer, an author, a designer, a most notable systems theorist, and he is considered by many to be one of the greatest thinkers of the last century; having coined the terms “Spaceship Earth”, ephemeralization, and synergetic, among others.
  3. Philippe Beaudoin, 2012.
    https://plus.google.com/u/0/107988469357342173268/posts/2MVoo5KG1eP
  4. Rice University’s 2012 commencement, Salman Khan, 2012.
    http://www.khanacademy.org/talks-and-interviews/v/salman-khan-at-rice-university-s-2012-commencement
  5. 80% Hate Their Jobs – But Should You Choose A Passion Or A Paycheck?, 2010. Business Insider.
    http://articles.businessinsider.com/2010-10-04/strategy/30001895_1_new-job-passion-careers

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The Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK Audiobook is released under a Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license. Feel free to use any or all of it as long as you link back to http://thenexus.tv/rsj17, you do not use it for commercial purposes, and you release any derivative works under the same license.

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