Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment
Author: Ford,Martin
ISBN: 9781780748481
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 27 Jul 2016
Pages: 320 Format: Paperback / softback
Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete- travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by 'robots'. Without a radical reassessment of our economic and political structures, we risk the implosion of the capitalist economy.
In The Rise of the Robots, technology expert Martin Ford systematically outlines the achievements of artificial intelligence and uses a wealth of economic data to illustrate the terrifying societal implications. From health and education to finance and technology, his warning is stark- no job is safe. The robots are coming and we have to decide now whether the future will bring prosperity or catastrophe.
ISBN: 9781780748481
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year first published: 27 Jul 2016
Pages: 320 Format: Paperback / softback
Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete- travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by 'robots'. Without a radical reassessment of our economic and political structures, we risk the implosion of the capitalist economy.
In The Rise of the Robots, technology expert Martin Ford systematically outlines the achievements of artificial intelligence and uses a wealth of economic data to illustrate the terrifying societal implications. From health and education to finance and technology, his warning is stark- no job is safe. The robots are coming and we have to decide now whether the future will bring prosperity or catastrophe.
