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Four Futures Revisited - 353 UNLOCKED

Four Futures Revisited - 353 UNLOCKED

Update: 2025-07-09
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Back in 2011 Peter Frase wrote an article for Jacobin called "Four Futures," later turned into a book, speculating about how politics and the economy might evolve in the future as automation progresses. The four possibilities, outlined in broad strokes, are: communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism. Fourteen years on, how have his predictions borne out, with the rise of global temperatures, green energy, and artificial intelligence?

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Four Futures Revisited - 353 UNLOCKED

Four Futures Revisited - 353 UNLOCKED

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