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Ford, Martin.

Rise of the Robots : Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future / Martin Ford. - 1 online resource (232 pages)

Includes index.

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 Health Care 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.

Martin Ford, the founder of a Silicon Valley–based software development firm, has over twenty-five years of experience in computer design and software development. The author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the Future, he lives in Sunnyvale, California.@MFordFuture.

ISBN: 9780465040674

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Employment forecasting.
Technological innovations--Economic aspects.
Labor supply--Effect of automation on.
Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD6331 / .F58 2015

Dewey Class. No.: 331.13/7042