A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond - Hardcover

Susskind, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1250173515 ISBN 13: 9781250173515

Verlag: Macmillan US, 2020

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For all the general anxiety about computers taking peoples jobs, economists have long been optimistic about technologys impact on employment. Historically, new inventions have always complemented human labor, helping rather than hurting workers. But with the emergence of artificial intelligence, acclaimed Oxford economist Daniel Susskind shows, all kinds of work are increasingly at riskas is the structure of the entire world economy.In a lively and approachable style, Susskind explains why this time really is different. Truckers and taxi drivers thrown out of work by driverless cars, for instance, cannot easily transition to become coders. Tasks that used to be far beyond the ability of computers, from diagnosing illnesses to drafting legal contracts, are rapidly coming within their reach. Eventually, the economy might have no need for human labor at all.This is not necessarily a bad thing, Susskind emphasizes. Technological progress has the potential not just to upend the global economy but to bring about unprecedented material prosperity. Enjoying that prosperity, though, requires us to plan for dealing with the economic disruptionand finding meaning in a world where paid work no longer functions as the center of our lives.

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Daniel Susskind is the coauthor, with Richard Susskind, of The Future of the Professions, named as one of the best books of the year by the Financial Times, New Scientist, and the Times Literary Supplement. He is a fellow in economics at Balliol College, Oxford University. Previously, he worked in the British government – as a policy adviser in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, as a policy analyst in the Policy Unit in 10 Downing Street, and as a senior policy adviser in the Cabinet Office.

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• Verlag: Macmillan US
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1250173515
• ISBN 13: 9781250173515
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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