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The rise of the robots

Paperback • 2016 • English • 1. edition

The rise of the robots: technology and the threat of mass unemployment

By Martin Ford

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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 ...Show more

Industrial relations, occupational health and safety
Production and industrial engineering

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ISBN

9781780748481

Publisher

Oneworld

Published year

2016

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

The rise of the robots

Format

Paperback

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