Daniel Susskind

A World Without Work (eBook, ePUB)

Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES & MCKINSEY 2020 BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR
One of Fortune Best Books of the Year
One of Inc. Best Business Books of the Year
One of The Times (UK) Best Business Books of the Year
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

From an Oxford economist, a visionary account of how technology will transform the world of work, and what we should do about it

From mechanical looms to the combustion engine to the first computers, new technologies have always provoked panic about workers being replaced by machines. For centuries, such fears have been misplaced, and many economists maintain that they remain so today. But as Daniel Susskind demonstrates, this time really is different. Breakthroughs in artificial intelligence mean that all kinds of jobs are increasingly at risk.

Drawing on almost a decade of research in the field, Susskind argues that machines no longer need to think like us in order to outperform us, as was once widely believed. As a result, more and more tasks that used to be far beyond the capability of computers - from diagnosing illnesses to drafting legal contracts, from writing news reports to composing music - are coming within their reach. The threat of technological unemployment is now real.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, Susskind emphasizes. Technological progress could bring about unprecedented prosperity, solving one of humanity's oldest problems: how to make sure that everyone has enough to live on. The challenges will be to distribute this prosperity fairly, to constrain the burgeoning power of Big Tech, and to provide meaning in a world where work is no longer the center of our lives. Perceptive, pragmatic, and ultimately hopeful, A World Without Work shows the way.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250173522
• Artikelnr.: 57013353

Autorenporträt

Daniel Susskind is the coauthor 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. Previously, he was a policy adviser for the prime minister¿s strategy unit and a senior adviser in the cabinet office of the British government.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: The Context
1. A History of Misplaced Anxiety
2. The Age of Labor
3. The Pragmatist Revolution
4. Underestimating Machines
Part II: The Threat
5. Task Encroachment
6. Frictional Technological Unemployment
7. Structural Technological Unemployment
8. Technology and Inequality
Part III: The Response
9. Education and Its Limits
10. The Big State
11. Big Tech
12. Meaning and Purpose
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

Rezensionen

Compelling ... Thought-provoking ... Should be required reading for any presidential candidate thinking about the economy of the future. New York Times