Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future / Martin Ford.

By:

Ford, Martin (Martin R.)

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780465059997
0465059996

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.13/7042 23

LOC classification:

HD6331 .F58 2015

Other classification:

BUS069000 | TEC052000 | TEC004000 | TEC037000

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.

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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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-315) and index.

"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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