The Future Isn’t What It Used to Be
Not a week passes without headlines predicting that the rise of robotization and digitization will have a profoundly unsettling impact on the economy and the world of work: “How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy” (Maney 2016); “Six Jobs Are Eliminated for Every...
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Published in | Confronting Dystopia pp. 1 - 24 |
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Format | Book Chapter |
Language | English |
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Ithaca, NY
Cornell University Press
15.06.2018
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Summary: | Not a week passes without headlines predicting that the rise of robotization and digitization will have a profoundly unsettling impact on the economy and the world of work: “How Artificial Intelligence and Robots Will Radically Transform the Economy” (Maney 2016); “Six Jobs Are Eliminated for Every Robot Introduced into the Work Force” (Glaser 2017); “No One Is Prepared to Stop the Robot Onslaught. So What Will We Do When It Arrives?” (Levine 2017).
Prophecies about the devastating impact of new technologies on jobs and working conditions are not new, going back to at least the early nineteenth century, when the |
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ISBN: | 9781501719844 150171984X |
DOI: | 10.7591/9781501719868-002 |