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Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future / Martin Ford.

By:

Ford, Martin

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Basic Books , 2015Description: 334 p. : illus. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780465059997

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.137 FOR

LOC classification:

HD6331 .F58 2015

Awards:

Winner of the Business Book of the Year 2015

Summary: 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?.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	331.137 FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		010564

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-315) and index.

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?.

English.

Winner of the Business Book of the Year 2015

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