Scott Timberg is a longtime culture writer based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Salon, The New York Times and the LA Times. His book Culture Crash: The Mugging of the Creative Class comes out in January. He blogs at artsjournal.com/culturecrash

Future Tense

The co-author of ‘The Second Machine Age’ talks about the possibility that machines will put us all of work and why that is just one of several scenarios of the future.