Rise of the Robots
Subtitle: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
By: Martin Ford
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780465059997
Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General; Effect of technological innovations on; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics; Effect of automation on; Labor supply; Technological innovations; Economic aspects; Employment forecasting; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automation
Description: Examines the effects of accelerating technology on the economic system.

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?
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-315) and index.
Table of contents: title: The automation wave; title: Is this time different?; title: Information technology : an unprecedented force for disruption; title: White-collar jobs at risk; title: Transforming higher education; title: The health care challenge; title: Consumers, limits to growth ... and crisis?; title: Super-intelligence and the singularity; title: Toward a new economic paradigm.