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 inConfronting Dystopia pp. 1 - 24
Main Author Paus, Eva
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press 15.06.2018
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Applied sciences
Axiology
Countries
Developing countries
Development studies
Economic disciplines
Economics
Emerging technology
Employment
Ethics
Eudaimonism
Globalization
Human geography
Income distribution
Income inequality
International development
International economics
Labor
Labor economics
Macroeconomics
Normative ethics
Philosophy
Political geography
Social sciences
Socioeconomics
Technological change
Technological revolutions
Technology
Utilitarianism
Wellbeing
Working conditions
Workplaces
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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
ISBN:9781501719844
150171984X
DOI:10.7591/9781501719868-002