If robots are the future of work, where do humans fit in? | Zoe Williams

We need to rethink our view of jobs and leisure - and quickly, if we are to avoid becoming obsolete

Robin Hanson thinks the robot takeover, when it comes, will be in the form of emulations. In his new book, The Age of Em, the economist explains: you take the best and brightest 200 human beings on the planet, you scan their brains and you get robots that to all intents and purposes are indivisible from the humans on which they are based, except a thousand times faster and better.

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