![]() The likelihood is that as machines edge humans out of work, income inequality will increase. One such is constant upskilling to scrabble for the increasingly fewer jobs available, building internal resilience to look beyond temporary setbacks and developing helpful, healthy, human relationships.Īn entire chapter is devoted to rising inequality. The authors devote significant print space to listing growth-oriented domains and jobs and adaptation roadmaps for humans. Technical efficiency enhancement is usually achieved by disintermediating transactions, like cutting out the middleman, as in directly settled cryptocurrency replacing cumbersome and expensive inter-bank transactions. Semi-skilled workers and middle managers will be under threat. The book suggests that technology will drive deep changes in work content and functions. ![]() This is analogous to the key unanswered issues in environmental degradation and climate change. What remains unanswered is whether mitigation options exist to temper the transformation or adaptation is the only choice and at what cost. This is no longer a developing country issue thanks to the competitive forces of globalisation and the sector wide cross-country standardisation of production systems and processes. The first of the "thousand cuts" which machines will inflict on humans is the loss of "good jobs". Humans need to strive to retain the essence of emotional intelligence and empathy, which distinguishes them from increasingly better equipped machines adept at managing most human activities. Even most business leaders would agree privately, through the "invisible hand" might dictate otherwise for corporate actions. They advocate embracing technological change by being resilient and mindful at the individual level and increasingly more human-centric at the institutional level. In this context, worrying about the transition of "workplaces" is but a proxy for the larger transformation of the world, as we humans know it. Cyborgs with machines as body parts (not just heart and limbs) but very soon artificial neural networks to replace damaged nerves and restore eyesight, muscular control and so on are already envisioned. The fear is, machines could become sentient in the not-too-distant future. New York: Semiotext(e).The central concern of the authors is how to retain human-centric workplaces in the face of the expected tech onslaught increasingly making machines central to the design, implementation and monitoring of most functional tasks catering to human needs. Seriality and Narrativity in Calvino’s Le cittá invisibili. Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative. The Italianist 8 (1): 56–65.įoucault, Michel. Italo Calvino’s Le Città Invisibili and ‘La Sfida Al Labirinto’. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.įerraro, Bruno. New York: Columbia University Press.Įco, Umberto. London: The Athlone Press.ĭeleuze, Gilles, and Claire Parnet. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Ravenna: Longo Editore.ĭeleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. ![]() Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Ĭannon, JoAnn. Calvino’s “maps” converge with theories that emphasize openness, decentered-ness, multiplicities, and multivocality.īarthes, Roland. In this essay I focus on Calvino’s narrative strategies in Invisible Cities and his attempt to map the invisible. As Andrew Gibson (1996) claims, the narratological imaginary has always been haunted by dreams of geometry, like maps with perfectly straight lines, like the cartographers’ dream of a map equal to territory. Consequently, maps are related to narratives, and narratology to cartography. The metaphor of the map opens up the texts, enabling different points of entrances that, like cities, become infinite storehouses of citations, echoes and references, crosses and recrosses. Hence, we repeatedly encounter the metaphor of a map that contains in itself this painful ambiguity and that brings up the possibility of interplay between reading and navigating, walking through the city and reading the city, between the reader and the traveler. Semioticians feast on the city stroll since everything opens up in textual tapestry: texts of streets texts of movies, television programs, and magazines texts of towers, bridges, dark and desolate blind alleys. Cities are like a text, full of different intersections, points of view, intentions, desires cities form plans, structures they are the complex layering of power, from its most general pre-textual forms to the ideology of the city plan or text itself. The density and complexity of the life and fabric of cities cannot be easily mapped because there is an immense concentration of diverse hybridity. Maps, cities, and narratives are always interrelated and interconnected. ![]()
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