There is No Alternative: Doctor Who, "Kerblam!", and the Specter of Technological Unemployment
In the 2018 Doctor Who episode "Kerblam!", something is killing workers off at a far future Amazon analogue. Is it Capitalism? Or is the system not the problem? In this episode, Doctor Who is used as a lens to understand the history of technological unemployment and what it means for our automated future. Bibliography and Further Reading Who Were the Luddites from History.com: https://www.history.com/news/who-were-the-luddites Article in the Guardian about Doctor Who's Issues with 'Wokeness'…
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