As long ago as 1984, in his Paths to Paradise, André Gorz, a self-proclaimed “revolutionary-reformist” stated, baldly, that the “micro-economic revolution heralds the abolition of work”. He even argued that “waged work?.?.?.?may cease to be a central preoccupation by the end of the century”. His timing was wrong. But serious analysts think he was directionally right. So what might a world of intelligent machines mean for humanity? Will human beings become as economically irrelevant as horses? If so, what will happen to our individual self-worth and the organisation of our societies?
早在1984年，自稱“革命改良主義者”的安德烈?高茲(André Gorz)在其所著的《天堂之路》(Paths to Paradise)一書中就直率地表示，“微觀經濟革命預示著廢除工作”。他甚至認為，“有薪工作……在本世紀末可能不再是生活中的一個主要重心”。他預測的時點不對，但嚴肅的分析師認為他在方向上是正確的。那么，智能機器的世界對人類意味著什么？人類會像馬一樣在經濟上變得無關緊要嗎？如果是這樣，我們個體的自我價值和我們社會的組織形式會發生什么？