Irvine Welsh on Emerging Futures

Beth Rigby interviews Irvine Welsh where he talks about: automation and AI; and how we have replaced ‘street culture’ with ‘screen culture; about independence and the need to break up big monolithic bodies; about authoritarianism and the future …

[here’s him from 2017 on the automation of work and what this means for our social relationships ]

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