Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

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Winner of the 2015 FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award

A New York Times Bestseller

Top Business Book of 2015 at Forbes

One of NBCNews.com 12 Notable Science and Technology Books of 2015

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin caring for themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making “good jobs” obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, place of job workers, and even computer programmers are poised to get replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries-education and health care-that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality in addition to the implosion of the consumer economy itself.

The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, don’t seem to be going to work. We should come to a decision, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic lack of confidence. Rise of the Robots is very important reading to consider what accelerating technology means for our economic prospects-not to mention those of our children-in addition to for society as a whole.
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