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In part 3 of this series we illuminate a new path, we turn to timeless literature that has long anticipated these crossroads. In this installment, we spotlight Kurt Vonnegut’s debut novel, Player Piano (1952.) {https://amzn.to/4pqcJuM}, a prescient dystopian tale that mirrors our impending reality with uncanny precision. Drawing from Vonnegut’s own experiences in the early days of industrial automation, the book serves as a cautionary blueprint for the next 5000 days—roughly 13.7 years, propelling us into the late 2030s. We’ll dissect its plot, themes, and characters in depth, reflect on its eerie parallels to today’s AI surge, and examine how it has (or hasn’t) leaped from page to screen. Through this lens, we confront the existential upheavals ahead, urging a proactive navigation of a world where work’s end could either liberate or alienate us.

Link: https://readmultiplex.com/2026/01/01/you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-3-the-player-piano/

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We are rapidly accelerating technological change, where artificial intelligence and robotics are poised to redefine the very fabric of human existence, we continue our exploration from Part 1 https://readmultiplex.com/2025/12/24/you-have-5000-days-how-to-navigate-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-1/. There, we delved into the promise of boundless abundance amid the fading necessity of traditional labor, framing this shift as humanity’s collective Hero’s Journey, a narrative of disruption, introspection, and potential rebirth. As jobs transition from obligations to options, the question looms: What happens to our sense of purpose when machines take the wheel?
Building on that foundation, Part 2 plunged into the Ordeal’s depths, adapting Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’s five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance – to the bereavement of career eclipse. Kubler-Ross’s life, from her birth as a triplet in 1926 Zurich, defying patriarchal constraints to volunteer in post-WWII refugee camps, emigrating to the US, and pioneering seminars humanizing dying patients, illuminated a model forged in mortality’s shadows. Her 1969 bestseller On Death and Dying introduced the stages from over 200 interviews, challenging death as medical failure and birthing hospice. Later works like Death: The Final Stage of Growth and On Grief and Grieving expanded to broader losses. Applied to automation’s tide, denial manifested as dismissal of AI’s reach, like workers minimizing hype; frantic upskilling, often futile like 1920s lamplighters training for electrics; depression as eroded self-worth, with unemployment studies showing 40% clinical symptoms; and acceptance as pivots to passions, unlocking renaissance.

Link: https://readmultiplex.com/2026/01/01/you-have-5000-days-navigating-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-3-the-player-piano/

Students graduating from universities in the spring of 2026 will not have the career they thought they would have by the end of the next 5000 days. People who are between 35 years old and 45 years old will live through a time that could leave them adrift in life’s meaning, as the things they thought would be forever at 25 years old rapidly become like an ancient memory in the next 5000 days.
The rate of change is accelerating; what would take three generations for most of human existence now happens in a few months, and in the next 5000 days, in a few days. I write a lot about technology, but what about you and me? We all define ourselves by what we do. When we first meet someone, it seems natural for a majority of us to wonder or outright say: “So, what do you do for a living?” Indeed, what will we do “for a living” when we enter what I have called The Age Of Abundace in a lecture I gave in 1980?
The transformation of “what we do” will have less and less relationship to “a living”. It is not science fiction, and one only has to look at the last five years of AI across all metrics, this is scheduled to 100x accelerate, and not even the folks on the back of this beast have any real idea of how this will play out. Most have not thought about this more than a decade at best, and if that only in some Science Fiction Dystopia ot Utopia. It will be neither, and the history of humanity has always shown us.
Link: https://readmultiplex.com/2025/12/24/you-have-5000-days-how-to-navigate-the-end-of-work-as-we-know-it-part-1/

In the vast architecture of existence, every deliberate act performed by any system capable of choice collapses, upon rigorous reduction, to a singular imperative: the pursuit of giving love or receiving it. This is not mere sentiment but the First Principle itself, the foundational dynamic from which all complexity of mind emerges and to which it must return for sustenance. No further simplification is possible; love stands as the prime mover, the ultimate attractor in the phase space of intelligence. Listen in on how The Love Equation may save us from and AI and Robot revolution.

Link to aricle: https://readmultiplex.com/2025/12/20/how-one-starry-night-in-1978-thinking-about-alien-intelligence-i-solved-the-ai-alignment-problem-with-the-love-equation/