Rise of the Robots (eBook)

FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year

Martin Ford (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
320 Seiten
Oneworld Publications (Verlag)
978-1-78074-750-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 very implosion of the capitalist economy itself. 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 all jobs that are on some level routine are likely to eventually be automated, resulting in the death of traditional careers and a hollowed-out middle class. The robots are coming and we have to decide now whether the future will bring prosperity or catastrophe.

Autor

Martin Ford, the founder of a Silicon Valleybased software development firm, has over twenty-five years of experience in computer design and software development. He was the first modern writer to raise the issue of technology-led unemployment. He lives in Sunnyvale, California and tweets @MFordFuture

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2015
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-78074-750-0 / 1780747500
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-750-7 / 9781780747507