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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Martin (Martin R.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--Effect of automation on.

Labor supply.

Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on.

Employment forecasting.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

xviii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, a member of the Pereus Books Group, [2015]

Summary:

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?"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-315) and index.

ISBN:

9780465059997

0465059996

OCLC:

888557104