The Rise of the Robots :

FT and McKinsey
Business Book of the Year
 By
Martin Ford
Oneworld Publications
 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 draws on a wealth of economic data
from both the US and the UK to outline the terrifying societal
implications of the robots' rise. From health and education to
finance and technology, his warning is stark: any job that is on some
level routine is likely to be automated and if we are to see a future
of prosperity rather than catastrophe we must act now.

Oneworld Publications

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