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Ready Worker One

Ready Worker One

Written by: Work Futures
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 A show exploring the deep real futures of work(ERS), beyond and below the hype. Join futurist Reanna Browne and friends, for a lucky dip of audio stories, ideas, and provocations that turn and face the strange and unshared futures of work change.

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  • The Last Worker

    The Last Worker
    Oct 24 2022

    In this episode, we catch up with the creator of The Last Worker, a narrative-based and dystopian virtual reality game, exploring the struggles of an increasingly automated and consumption-driven world.



    Time stamps

    3:37 - Idea behind TLW

    5:46 - Changes that informed TLW

    8:27 - Automation taxonomy + why choose a game to explore automation?

    15:41 - Objectives of the game

    16:14 - Gamification

    19:24 - Why do you want players to experience automation

    24:13 - The workers behind TLW

    26:41 - Hopes for TLW

    29:03 - What can real-life workers do come Monday?

    30:59 - Wrapping up and reflections



    Episode links

    The Last Worker

    Jörg Tittel



    Episode references

    Ghost Work (Gray & Suri, 2019)

    Work Without The Worker (Jones, 2021)

    Four Futures of Work (RSA)


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