Rise of the robots [electronic resource] : technology and the threat of a jobless future / Martin Ford.
2015
HD6331 .F58 2015eb
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Rise of the robots [electronic resource] : technology and the threat of a jobless future / Martin Ford.
ISBN
9780465040674 electronic book
9780465059997 hardcover
9780465059997 hardcover
Published
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
Copyright
©2015
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 334 pages) : illustrations.
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HD6331 .F58 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.13/7042
Summary
"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes index.
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Table of Contents
The automation wave
Is this time different?
Information technology : an unprecedented force for disruption
White-collar jobs at risk
Transforming higher education
The health care challenge
Consumers, limits to growth ... and crisis?
Super-intelligence and the singularity
Toward a new economic paradigm.
Is this time different?
Information technology : an unprecedented force for disruption
White-collar jobs at risk
Transforming higher education
The health care challenge
Consumers, limits to growth ... and crisis?
Super-intelligence and the singularity
Toward a new economic paradigm.