‘Hurrah! We get to pretend to be sophisticated members of the intelligentsia’ – Grazia

One of London’s Five Best Talk Events – The Evening Standard

After the sell-out success of our first two events, Future Human, London’s theatre of new ideas, is back on Wednesday April 14th with ‘The Automated Nation’. Tickets can be bought here.

Middle-class industries from accountancy to marketing, tourism to the stock market, are being transformed by powerful software and technologies that improve economic efficiency tenfold, while eradicating the need for human labour. How is this great transition reshaping British industry and our economy? Who will benefit, who will lose out, and who is responsible? And what will the human consequences be?

Joining us to discuss these issues over a cocktail or five are Peter Kirwan, Wired magazine’s chief media futurist; Victor Henning, founder of Mendeley, which uses algorithm technology to organise academic research from all over the world; popular author and sci-fi expert Sam Jordison; and other special guests.

Future Human: The Automated Nation runs from 7-9pm on Wednesday April 14 at The Book Club, Shoreditch, London (click here for a map). Tickets are available here – advance purchase is recommended as numbers are limited. We hope you can join us!