The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

Available from Nook & Cranny Books when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A centaur is a person whose work is assisted by technology, a worker whose tools make them happier and more productive. A reverse centaur, on the other hand, is a worker pressed into service to technology, a person pushed beyond human endurance to work on a machine’s terms. Think of a warehouse worker made to work without food or bathroom breaks, or a programmer made to crank out impossible amounts of code. There is, to Cory Doctorow, nothing inevitable about the story of AI, about who or what w