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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: After years of hype, industrial robots now set to replace human factory workers.
Chapter 3: Progress in self-driving tech will soon make truck, taxi, delivery drivers all obsolete.
Chapter 4: Demand for retail and restaurant workers is already shrinking fast due to automated technologies.
Chapter 5: Automation will soon handle many of the more routine tasks across the entire legal profession.
Chapter 6: As banking moves online with algorithmic help, the industry will increasingly need fewer human workers in the future.
Chapter 7: Automated technologies will take on monitoring our health, diagnosing conditions, and administering treatments for diseases.
Chapter 8: Across healthcare and beyond, many future roles will center on supporting automated systems and workflows.
Chapter 9: Automation will let journalists pursue more engaging work and do it in stronger ways.
Chapter 10: Thanks to automation, teachers’ roles will move from delivering knowledge toward nurturing key soft skills in students.
Chapter 11: Entertainment and cultural industries will grow in importance as automation gives people far more free time to enjoy.
Description
The Robots Are Coming! (2019) provides a wide-ranging survey of the rapidly approaching – and, in many cases, already emerging – future of automation. In the coming decades, sophisticated robots, computer programs and other forms of automated technology will eliminate many jobs in many fields, and will radically transform the jobs that remain. Andrés Oppenheimer takes us on an insightful and eye-opening tour of some of the key industries to be affected and the major transformations that lie ahead.
Who Should Listen
- Skeptics who wonder if the robots really are coming
- Pessimists who fear the future they will bring
- Optimists who hope they will unlock new possibilities for humanity