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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: The Industrial Revolution paved the way for the Information Revolution.
Chapter 3: History demonstrates that machines raise nations’ wealth and do not imperil human employment overall today.
Chapter 4: As machines learn to make cognitive decisions, service-sector jobs are increasingly at risk now globally.
Chapter 5: In the coming years, intelligent machines and robots will render many service jobs obsolete.
Chapter 6: Technology will cause economic contraction and could further widen the gap between social classes.
Chapter 7: Universal basic income may be the answer, though joblessness will bring serious psychological consequences as well.
Description
The Economic Singularity (2016) takes a long, hard look at what the future has in store for us based on the technological progress we’ve made so far. It’s clear that we’re moving toward the kind of artificial intelligence that will automate most of our jobs – but how do we plan to deal with this scenario? Find out the challenges we’ll face and what we need to do to prepare ourselves for the inevitable.
Who Should Listen
- Readers who feel threatened by the rapid progress of technology
- Tech freaks and geeks
- Economists concerned about the future