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Will robots take your job? : a plea for consensus
- Title
- Will robots take your job? : a plea for consensus / Nigel M. De S. Cameron.
- Author
- Cameron, Nigel M. de S.
- Publication
- Malden, MA : Polity, 2017.
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- Description
- xvi, 121 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. Conventional wisdom says there will be new jobs to replace those we lose--but is it so simple? And are we ready? Technology writer and think tank director Nigel Cameron argues it's naive to believe we face a smooth transition. Whether or not there are "new" jobs, we face massive disruption as the jobs millions of us are doing get outsourced to machines. A twenty-first-century "rust belt" will rapidly corrode the labor market and affect literally hundreds of different kinds of job simultaneously. Robots won't design our future--we will. Yet shockingly, political leaders and policy makers do not seem to have this in their line of sight. So how should we assess and prepare for this unknown future?"--
- Series Statement
- New human frontiers series
- Uniform Title
- New human frontiers series.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: time to stop being naive -- Non-human resources -- "The stupid Luddite people" -- Welcome to the Rust Belt -- Building consensus and getting prepared.
- ISBN
- 9781509509553
- 1509509550
- 9781509509560
- 1509509569
- LCCN
- 2016049516
- 99973691102
- 40027297066
- OCLC
- ocn962353922
- 962353922
- SCSB-13569337
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries