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Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Basic Books
May 2015
On Sale: May 5, 2015
354 pages
ISBN: 0465059996
EAN: 9780465059997
Kindle: B00PWX7RPG
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Non-Fiction
What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And
who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today’s
industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as
some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with
the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the
Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues
that this is absolutely not the case. As technology
continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of
themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial
intelligence is already well on its way to making “good
jobs” obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office
workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be
replaced by robots and smart software. As progress
continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate,
squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further.
At the same time, households are under assault from
exploding costs, especially from the two major
industries—education and health care—that, so far, have not
been transformed by information technology. The result could
well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the
implosion of the consumer economy itself.
In Rise
of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence
and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers,
scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications.
The past solutions to technological disruption, especially
more training and education, aren’t going to work, and we
must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based
prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic
insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading
for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating
technology means for their own economic prospects—not to
mention those of their children—as well as for society as a
whole.
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