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Aaron Bastani: Fully Automated Luxury Communism (Hardcover, 2019, Verso Books)

In his first book, leading political commentator Aaron Bastani conjures a new politics: a vision …

Review of 'Fully Automated Luxury Communism' on 'Goodreads'

No, AI, space mining and synthetic meat will not magically solve all of society's problems.
Bastani does not even mention that AI and big data will need exponentially more energy. Also, racial and social bias in AI models is not event mentioned in passing. And green energy isn't just jolly green, but wastes lots of energy in production as well.
It sometimes feels like an advertising magazine for the companies he is uncritically praising throughout the book.
I get it that positive outlooks are sometimes needed. But this kind of technocratic socialist perspective, praising unfettered growth will hardly solve problems of overconsumption.