Given the recent developments in generative AI, concern about robots taking over our jobs is surely at an all-time high. And so, while its dystopian future is built from an earlier iteration of these fears – that automation would replace the labour of our bodies, not our minds – The Last Worker arrives feeling more of the moment than writer-director Jörg Tittel and developer Wolf & Wood could ever have expected. At least, when it comes to this one issue in particular, because this science-fiction satire plucks from a much broader range of today’s hot topics.
Top of the agenda are the effects of consumerism and corporate greed on our delicate ecosystem, and on people,
