Will robots take your job? : a plea for consensus

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?"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781509509553
ISBN: 1509509550
ISBN: 9781509509560
ISBN: 1509509569
Physical Description: print
xvi, 121 pages ; 19 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Polity Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 110-116) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: time to stop being naive -- Non-human resources -- "The stupid Luddite people" -- Welcome to the Rust Belt -- Building consensus and getting prepared.