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Product: A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." (AudioFile Magazine)

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From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it.

From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk.

Drawing on almost a decade of research in the field, Susskind argues that machines no longer need to think like us in order to outperform us, as was once widely believed. As a result, more and more tasks that used to be far beyond the capability of computers - from diagnosing illnesses to drafting legal contracts, from writing news reports to composing music - are coming within their reach. The threat of technological unemployment is now real.This is not necessarily a bad thing, Susskind emphasizes. Technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, solving one of humanity’s oldest problems: how to make sure that everyone has enough to live on. The challenges will be to distribute this prosperity fairly, to constrain the burgeoning power of Big Tech, and to provide meaning in a world where work is no longer the center of our lives. Perceptive, pragmatic, and ultimately hopeful, A World Without Work shows the way.

Product: A World Without Work (Pennies in The Sky Book 2) Where is artificial intelligence taking us?
What would it be like to live in a world without work?

Innovations in artificial intelligence have brought the world to the brink of a technological singularity. Will this super-intelligent creation want to help or hurt us?

Henry Taylor, CEO of ZXCV Technologies, works tirelessly to usher in the Singularity. He is convinced that it will vastly improve humanity in ways that cannot be imagined, but he also knows there are those who will stop at nothing to prevent it.

The futuristic, yet reclusive Calendra Society believes that the Singularity will seek to destroy humanity. Unable to raise concern about the coming storm, Calendra begins to build a futuristic city in a remote part of Mexico to protect itself from the technological onslaught. Marketed as a technological resort for the wealthy, the City of Calendra is secretly built for war.

The two societies are on a collision course. Luke Jankowski, a complicated hero, works between the societies to discover the truth.

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