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

"Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by 'robots...

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Autor principal: Ford, Martin (Martin R.)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: London : Oneworld, 2015.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. The automation wave
  • 2. Is this time different?
  • 3. Information technology: an unprecedented force for disruption
  • 4. White-collar jobs at risk
  • 5. Transforming higher education
  • 6. The healthcare challenge
  • 7. Technologies and industries of the future
  • 8. Consumers, limits to growth ... and crisis?
  • 9. Super-intelligence and the singularity
  • 10. Toward a new economic paradigm
  • Conclusion.