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Rise of the robots technology and the threat of a jobless future

Examines the effects of accelerating technology on the economic system.

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Main Author: Ford, Martin (Martin R.)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, a member of the Pereus Books Group, [2015]
Subjects:
Labor supply > Effect of automation on.
Labor supply > Effect of technological innovations on.
Employment forecasting.
Technological innovations > Economic aspects.
Employees > Dismissal of > United States.
Displaced workers > United States.
Unemployed > United States.
Downsizing of organizations > United States.
Plant shutdowns > United States.
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Table of 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.

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