Cover art for The Rise of the Robots
Published
Oneworld, July 2016
ISBN
9781780748481
Format
Softcover, 352 pages
Dimensions
19.8cm × 12.9cm × 2.3cm

The Rise of the Robots Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment by

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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.

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