Rise of the robots

Contributor(s):

Ford, Martin [0]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Basic books, 2015Description: xviii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN:

9780465059997

Subject(s): Summary: ; 'In Silicon Valley the phrase 'disruptive technology' is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation?'-- Provided by publisher. ; ;

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	TBS Barcelona Libre acceso	HD6331 FOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		B01426

; 'In Silicon Valley the phrase 'disruptive technology' is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation?'-- Provided by publisher. ; ;