The Rise of the Robots
Autor Martin Forden Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2016
If a ‘robot’ could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it’s travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat. Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers. Without a radical reassessment of our economic and political structures, we risk the implosion of the capitalist economy itself. In a frightening tour of artificial intelligence’s rapid advances, technology expert Martin Ford draws on a wealth of economic data from both the US and the UK to outline the terrifying societal implications of the robots’ rise. From health and education to finance and technology, his warning is stark: any job that is on some level routine is likely to be automated and if we are to see a future of prosperity rather than catastrophe we must act now.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1780748485
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 128 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Oneworld Publications
Notă biografică
Martin Ford, the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm, has over twenty-five years of experience in computer design and software development. The author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the Future, he lives in Sunnyvale, California.
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"Compelling and well-written.... In his conception, the answer is a combination of short-term policies and longer-term initiatives, one of which is a radical idea that may gain some purchase among gloomier techno-profits: a guaranteed income for all citizens. If that stirs up controversy, that's the point. The book is both lucid and bold, and certainly a starting point for robust debate about the future of all workers in an age of advancing robotics and looming artificial intelligence systems."—ZDNet
"For nonfiction, I tip my hat to Martin Ford'sRise of the Robots, which is vacuuming up accolades and is recommended reading for IIF staff. Ford's analysis, in a somewhat crowded field of similar books, offers a sobering assessment of how technology (robotics, machine learning, AI, etc.) is reshaping labor markets, the composition of growth, and the distribution of income and wealth, and calls for enlightened political and policy leadership to address coming, accelerating disruptions and dislocations."—Timothy Adam,Bloomberg Business
"Mr. Ford lucidly sets out myriad examples of how focused applications of versatile machines (coupled with human helpers where necessary) could displace or de-skill many jobs.... His answer to a sharp decline in employment is a guaranteed basic income, a safety net that he suggests would both cushion the effect on the newly unemployable and encourage entrepreneurship among those creative enough to make a new way for themselves. This is a drastic prescription for the ills of modern industrialization--ills whose severity and very existence are hotly contested.Rise of the Robotsprovides a compelling case that they are real, even if its more dire predictions are harder to accept."—Wall Street Journal
"An alarming new book."—Esquire
"A thorough look at how far machines have come"—Washington Post, Innovations blog
"Ford offers ideas on changes in social policies, including guaranteed income, to keep our economy humming and prepare ourselves for a more automated future."—Booklist
"A careful and courageous examination of automation and its possible impact on society."—Kirkus Reviews
"InRise of the Robots, Ford coolly and clearly considers what work is under threat from automation."—New Scientist
"Martin Ford has thrust himself into the center of the debate over AI, big data, and the future of the economy with a shrewd look at the forces shaping our lives and work. As an entrepreneur pioneering many of the trends he uncovers, he speaks with special credibility, insight, and verve. Business people, policy makers, and professionals of all sorts should read this book right away--before the 'bots steal their jobs. Ford gives us a roadmap to the future."—Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor for theEconomistand co-author ofBig Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think
"Few captured the mood as well as Martin Ford inRise of the Robots, the winner of the FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, which painted a bleak picture of the upheavals that would come as ever-greater numbers of even highly skilled workers were displaced by machines."—Financial Times
"[A] breathtaking new book on modern economics."—Forbes.com
"Lucid, comprehensive and unafraid to grapple fairly with those who dispute Ford's basic thesis,Rise of the Robotsis an indispensable contribution to a long-running argument."—Los Angeles Times