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A World Without Work
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,...
Automation, Business & Economics, Digital Transformation, Education, Employment, Future of Work, Robotics Daniel Susskind
Automating Inequality
The State of Indiana denies one million applications for healthcare, foodstamps and cash benefits in three years―because a new computer system interprets any mistake as “failure to cooperate.” In Los...
Computers, Employment, Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment Virginia Eubanks
The full-time job is disappearing—is landing the right gig the new American Dream? One in three American workers is now a freelancer. This “gig economy”—one that provides neither the guarantee...
Forecasting, Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment Sarah Kessler
Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and...
Economics, Future of Work, Inequality Annie Lowrey
NextMapping
This NextMapping - Second Edition provides strategies and ideas for leaders, teams, and entrepreneurs to navigate the future of work. The biggest imperative for companies right now is to be ready...
Automation, Business & Economics, Future of Work, Leadership, Robotics Cheryl Cran
Re-Engineering Humanity
Every day, new warnings emerge about artificial intelligence rebelling against us. All the while, a more immediate dilemma flies under the radar. Have forces been unleashed that are thrusting humanity...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Computer & Internet Law, Future of Work, Law, Privacy, Public Policy, Technology & Engineering Brett Frischmann
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...
Automation, Future of Work, Robotics, Social Aspects of Technology Martin Ford
Every working person in the United States asks the same question, how secure is my job? For a generation, roughly from 1945 to 1970, business and government leaders embraced a...
Future of Work, Inequality, Unemployment Louis Hyman
This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we...
Business & Economics, Future of Work, Law, Social Aspects of Technology, Strategy Richard Susskind, David Susskind
Robots, artificial intelligence, and driverless cars are no longer things of the distant future. They are with us today and will become increasingly common in coming years, along with virtual...
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Employment, Future of Work, Robotics, Unemployment Darrell M. West
The Globotics Upheaval
At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service...
Automation, Business & Economics, Future of Work, Globalization, Robotics Richard E. Baldwin
Since 1973, our productivity has grown almost six times faster than our wages. Most of us rank so far below the top earners in the country that the "winners" might...
Economics, Employment, Future of Work, Unemployment Ellen Ruppel Shell
The American worker is in crisis. Wages have stagnated for more than a generation. Reliance on welfare programs has surged. Life expectancy is falling as substance abuse and obesity rates...
Economics, Future of Work, Inequality, Political Science Oren Cass
Tomorrow's Lawyers predicts that we are at the beginning of a period of fundamental transformation in law: a time in which we will see greater change than we have seen...
Computer & Internet Law, Future of Work, Law, Science, Technology & Engineering Richard Susskind
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