What happens when technology replaces the need for workers?
In their new book, professors Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas explore what the future of meaningful work looks like.
Visitors to Walt Disney World cannot help but be confronted with founder and visionary Walt Disney’s obsession with the future. Evidence is all over the park, from Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom to the geodesic dome presiding over the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, better known as Epcot. The It’s a Small World ride gets outsize attention and for good reason, with its dubiously diverse children swaying to an earworm tune as visitors meander through a psychedelically rendered global tableau (as in Epcot’s World Showcase, European countries are oversampled), ultimately arriving at a heavenly room where the children are all together and, inexplicably, dressed in white.