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Examines the effects of accelerating technology on the economic system 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?" In Rise of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers, scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren’t going to work, and we must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating technology means for their own economic prospects—not to mention those of their children—as well as for society as a whole.

Labor supply --- Employment forecasting --- Technological innovations --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automation --- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics --- #SBIB:316.334.2A554 --- #SBIB:316.334.2A320 --- 316.334.23 --- toekomstvisie --- Forecasting, Employment --- Labor market --- Economic forecasting --- Technological unemployment --- Effect of automation on --- Effect of technological innovations on --- Economic aspects --- Partijen en strategieën in de onderneming: technologische verandering en zijn effecten op structuur en inhoud van de arbeidsposten --- Arbeidssociologie: morfologie van de arbeidsmarkt --- Industriële sociologie. Sociologie van onderneming --- Forecasting --- Labour market --- Artificial intelligence. Robotics. Simulation. Graphics