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Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future / Martin Ford.
Lippincott Library HD6331 .F577 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ford, Martin (Martin R.), author.
- 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:
- xxx, 383 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Second trade paperback edition.
- Other Title:
- Technology and the threat of a jobless future
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2026.
- Summary:
- "As artificial intelligence continues to accelerate, what are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? Many highly educated knowledge workers, including attorneys, financial analysts, and even software developers, are poised to be replaced by AI, while robots will increasingly threaten blue-collar jobs. This new edition of Rise of the Robots includes extensive new coverage of the latest advances in generative AI and robotics and explores what these technologies mean for the job market and economy of the future. How can individuals, and society as a whole, adapt to the changes that are coming? The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work. We must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Prescient and clearly reasoned, this award-winning book is essential reading to understand what accelerating technology means for us and for our future"-- Back cover.
- 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
- Technologies and industries of the future
- Consumers, limits to growth ... and crisis?
- Super-intelligence and the singularity
- Toward a new economic paradigm
- 2025 update and the path forward.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 2015.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-363) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1541608860
- 9781541608863
- OCLC:
- 1545055540
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