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100 1  Ford, Martin|4aut 
245 10 Rise of the robots :|btechnology and the threat of a 
       jobless future /|cMartin Ford 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|cc2015 
300    xviii, 334 p.|bill.|c235 x 156mm 
520    In a world of Google Glass and big data, smart algorithms 
       and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting 
       smarter every day. Though all these nifty devices and 
       programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on
       their way to making good jobs obsolete. A computer winning
       Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive, feat, 
       but the same technology is making paralegals redundant as 
       it undertakes electronic discovery, and is soon to do the 
       same for radiologists. And that, no doubt, will only be 
       the beginning. In Silicon Valley the phrase disruptive 
       technology is tossed around on a casual basis. No one 
       doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire 
       industries and upend various sectors of the job market. 
       But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can 
       accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system
       to the point where a fundamental restructuring is 
       required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only 
       need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations,
       but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or 
       smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from 
       human labor to computation? The more Pollyannaish, or just
       simply uninformed, might imagine that this industrial 
       revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs 
       are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new 
       devices of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford 
       argues that is absolutely not the case. Increasingly, 
       machines will be able to take care of themselves, and 
       fewer jobs will be necessary. The effects of this 
       transition could be shattering. Unless we begin to 
       radically reassess the fundamentals of how our economy 
       works, we could have both an enormous population of the 
       unemployed--the truck drivers, warehouse workers, cooks, 
       lawyers, doctors, teachers, programmers, and many, many 
       more, whose labors have been rendered superfluous by 
       automated and intelligent machines--and a general economy 
       that, bereft of consumers, implodes under the weight of 
       its own contradictions. We are at an inflection point--do 
       we continue to listen to those who argue that nothing 
       fundamental has changed, and take a bad bet on a miserable
       future, or do we begin to discuss what we must do to 
       ensure all of us, and not just the few, benefit from the 
       awesome power of artificial intelligence? The time to 
       choose is now. Rise of the Robots is a both an exploration
       of this new technology and a call to arms to address its 
       implications. Written by a successful Silicon Valley 
       entrepreneur, this is a book that cannot be dismissed as 
       the ranting of a Luddite or an outsider. Ford has seen the
       future, and he knows that for some of us, the rise of the 
       robots will be very frightening indeed 
650  0 Employment forecasting 
650  0 Labor supply|xEffect of automation on 
650  0 Labor supply|xEffect of technological innovations on 
650  0 Technological innovations|xEconomic aspects 
650  7 Teknik och samhälle|2sao 
650  7 Robotar|2sao 
650  7 Arbetskraft|2sao 
650  7 Teknikutveckling|2sao 
650  7 Teknologisk arbetslöshet|2sao 
650  7 Tekniska innovationer|xekonomiska aspekter|2sao 
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