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Set years before Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model, a newly-promoted head of Human Resources for a multinational conglomerate navigates their new role in a world where humans are increasingly redundant. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. Set years before Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model, a newly-promoted head of Human Resources for a multinational conglomerate navigates their new role in a world where humans are show more increasingly redundant. Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire, has practised law and now writes full time. He's also studied stage-fighting, perpetrated amateur dramatics and has a keen interest in entomology and table-top games. show lessTags
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I have Tchaikovsky's novel "Service Model" on my TBR-pile, but apparently he also wrote a sort of prequel that is set many years before "Service Model". This short story is freely available at reactormag.com.
A "short" story indeed, nothing really happening, except lay-offs. By a human being. While the rest of the company... consists of AI and robots. When HR or Human Resources really are about "human" resources.
Nothing fancy, yet very much food for thought regarding our current society - and what the future may or may not bring - in terms of workforce, viable work, ... for humans, as AI will become more and more prominent in various industries.
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Related works I've read earlier:
* Hypermondes: Robots (Hypermondes, #1) (review)
* show more Travailler encore ? (review)
* Ariel Kyrou - Dans les imaginaires du futur (review) show less
A "short" story indeed, nothing really happening, except lay-offs. By a human being. While the rest of the company... consists of AI and robots. When HR or Human Resources really are about "human" resources.
Nothing fancy, yet very much food for thought regarding our current society - and what the future may or may not bring - in terms of workforce, viable work, ... for humans, as AI will become more and more prominent in various industries.
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Related works I've read earlier:
* Hypermondes: Robots (Hypermondes, #1) (review)
* show more Travailler encore ? (review)
* Ariel Kyrou - Dans les imaginaires du futur (review) show less
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Adrian Tchaikovsky is a British fantasy and science fiction author, born on June 14, 1972 in Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire. He studied Zoology and Psychology at the University of Reading. His career focus changed to law and has worked as a Legal Executive in both Reading and Leeds. He's the author of the Shadows of the Apt series, and his standalone show more novel Children of Time is the winner of the 2016 Arthur C Clarke Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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