Mike Kidron

The Presence of the Future

Extracts


Published here for the first time in November 2019 with support of the Kidron Family.
Copyright © 2019 Estate of Michael Kidron.
Transcribed and edited by John Rudge.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.


Introduction, by John Rudge

The Argument

Table of Contents

Extract 1
Preface

Extract 2
The Great Transition

Extract 3
Consequences

Extract 4
Unintended Consequences

Extract 5
Nature

Extract 6
Redundancy

Extract 7
Culture

Extract 8
The Leap to Eternity

Extract 9
Coda: The Evolution Game
(Consciousness v. Extrapolation)


See also:

The Injured Self

Failing growth and rampant costs:
Two ghosts in the machine of modern capitalism


Last updated on 25 November 2019