马丁·福特，机器人革命、人工智能、工作自动化领域的一流专家，在计算机设计和软件开发领域拥有超过25年的实践经验，著有《未来之光：自动化、技术发展和未来的经济》一书。

Book 图书名称：Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Author 作者：Martin Ford
Publisher 出版社：Basic Books
Page 页数：352
Publishing Date 出版时间：May 5, 2015                        
Language 语言：English
Size 大小：2.6  MB
Format 格式：pdf 文字版
ISBN:0465059996, 9780465059997
Edition: 第1版 搜索过论坛，没有该文档


What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today’s industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new innovations of a new era. In Rise of the Robots, Silicon Valley entrepreneur Martin Ford argues that this is absolutely not the case. As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making “good jobs” obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries—education and health care—that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.

In Rise of the Robots, Ford details what machine intelligence and robotics can accomplish, and implores employers, scholars, and policy makers alike to face the implications. The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren’t going to work, and we must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what accelerating technology means for their own economic prospects—not to mention those of their children—as well as for society as a whole.