Creating a Voice-Over About the Future of Work

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[...] Creating a Voice-Over About the Future of Work Year 2050. We are finally at the climax of technology. Day-to-day life has changed. No more useless devices such as alarm clocks. You set you curtain for nine, and it opened automatically. No more time to lie-in. There are no longer useless people either . If a robot can do it, well, it will do it. And it's safer when it comes to clean windows for instance. But now, when we hear that a job is available somewhere, people emigrate by millions, hoping for a better life. [...]

[...] Everything is established not to waste time. From your clothes to your shopping habits. And of course, if they have access to your wardrobe, they have access to your tastes, to your life and your mind so you don't even have to search for stuff you like anymore, they are displayed just for you. So as your medicine, once a machine examined you (well sometimes it is not working very well). Some words have disappeared from the dictionary, words like "sociability". [...]

[...] But when you're not like these people, you don't look at them. You're ignoring them. You're just going to work, pleased about your job which allows you a good lifestyle. But Alice is not an exception, because one day, it's over. Don't be mad, it's not you, it's just that you're not productive. Well, not as a robot. And what are we without them now? It's over now that machines are better than human beings. What will happen, when they will understand that they don't need us anymore? [...]