Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00PWX7RPG |
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| Number of Pages | : | 148 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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Ford gives us a roadmap to the future.”Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor for the Economist and co-author of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and ThinkIf the robots are coming for my job (too), then Martin Ford is the person I want on my side, not to fend them off but to construct a better world where we can allhumans and our machineslive more prosperously together. No one who cares about the future of human dignity can afford to skip this book.”Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget and Who Owns the Future?Ever since the Luddites, pessimists have believed that technology would destroy jobs. Ford lucidly sets out myriad examples of how focused applications of
Incredible book from page 75 on -- An AI Professor's Opinion migedy I have taught Artificial Intelligence (AI) for 3 decades at a major university. Until about 10 years ago, whenever someone worried about the effect of intelligent software/hardware destroying future jobs, I would always give my "buggy whip" argument, which goes like this:"When the automobile was invent. Abacus said A darker “The Second Machine”. Martin Ford is among the technologists who have warned that technology is and will increasingly displace human beings across all employment sectors. This phenomenon will threaten the structural foundation of our capitalist economies fueled by consumer spending (that accounts for close to 70% of GDP in . Jason Jackson said Thoughtful book about jobs and technology. I have written business software for much of my career. In my current role I am with an awesome startup that is helping simplify data management in a particular industry. We have been told things like, "Your product saved me weeks of work on this project." I have always viewed that as empowering people
As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.In Rise of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers, scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work, and we must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating technology means for their own economic prospectsnot to mention those of their childrenas well as for society as a whole.. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making good jobs” obsolete: many paralegals, journalists