Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of Emerging Technology and Employment in the Early Twenty-First Century; Technological Unemployment: The Scope of the Problem; What Types of Workers Are Being Displaced, and How?; The Consequences to Society of Job Displacement; Possible Solutions to Technological Unemployment; Reducing Working Hours for Everyone to Provide More Work; Instituting a Basic Income Guarantee; Using Micro-Fees and Micro-Incomes to Offset Forced Unemployment

Long-Term Solutions Are Harder to See, but the Past Shows a WayOverview of Upcoming Chapters; Note; References; Chapter 2: Is Technological Unemployment Real? An Assessment and a Plea for Abundance Economics; Introduction; Part I: The Problem: Technological Unemployment, Income Inequality, and the Automation Economy; The Nature of Technological Unemployment; Jobless Growth; Income Inequality; Part II: The Solution: A New Philosophy of Economic Theory; Abundance Economics Phase I: Automation Economy Alleviates Material-Goods Scarcity

Abundance Economics Phase II: Actualization Economy Creates Social Goods for Human ThrivingDiscussion and Limitations; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Creative Destruction: Emerging Technology and the Changing Course of Job Creation; Creative Destruction; The Historical Observation; The Suffering and the Theory; The Political Dangers; The Future; Is There Something Fundamentally Different About Our Time?; The Phase Change; Preparation; Why We All Need to Take Preparation Personally; A Final Thought; References

Chapter 4: Employment in the Age of Em: Simulated Brains and the Economics of LaborBrain Emulations; The Age of Em; Humans; References; Chapter 5: Building a Post-work Utopia: Technological Unemployment, Life Extension, and the Future of Human Flourishing; Introduction: Unemployment in an Aging World; Assumptions and Clarifications; Will There Be a Longevity Dividend?; Flourishing and Well-Being in a Post-Work Age; The Post-Work Utopia as a World of Games; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Can We Build a Resilient Employment Market for an Uncertain Future?; Resilience and Opportunity

EducationHuman Skills and Nonstandard Work; Policies and Regulation; Basic Income; A Cyborg Strategy; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Unconditional Basic Income as a Solution to Technological Unemployment; What's the Catch?; That Wrench Is Technological Unemployment; The Invisible Sheep; The Missing Right; The Return of the Common Wealth; References; Chapter 8: Policy Solutions to Technological Unemployment; Introduction; Incremental Solutions; Mandating Employment; Government Job Creation; Work Sharing; Employment Impact Statements; Educational and Training Reforms