title: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
author:  Martin Ford 
description: A careful and courageous examination of automation and its possible impact on society.<br /><b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br /><br />In <i>Rise of the Robots</i>, Ford coolly and clearly considers what work is under threat from automation.<br /><b><i>New Scientist</i></b><br /><br />Makes clear the need to come to grips with ever more rapidly advancing technology and its effects on how people make a living and how the economy functions.<br /><b><i>Pittsburgh Tribune-Review</i></b><br /><br />Of all the moderns who have written on automation and rising joblessness, Martin Ford is the original. His <i>Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future</i> is due out this May.... Self-recommending.<br /><b><i>Marginal Revolution</i></b><br /><br />Robots, and their like, are on the rise. Their impact will be an important question in the next decade and beyond. Martin Ford has been thinking in this area before most others, so this book deserves very careful consideration.<br /><b>Lawrence Summers, President Emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University</b><br /><br />Compelling and well-written In his conception, the answer is a combination of short-term policies and longer-term initiatives, one of which is a radical idea that may gain some purchase among gloomier techno-profits: a guaranteed income for all citizens. If that stirs up controversy, that's the point. The book is both lucid and bold, and certainly a starting point for robust debate about the future of all workers in an age of advancing robotics and looming artificial intelligence systems.<br /><b>ZDNet</b><br /><br />An alarming new book.<br /><b><i>Esquire</i></b><br /><br />A thorough look at how far machines have come<br /><b><i>Washington Post</i>, Innovations blog</b><br /><br />Ford tells great stories, both about innovation in the last 50 years and about the potential impacts of widespread automation of work in the future<i>Rise of the Robots</i> is a competent, approachable, and well-written synthesis of information across many area, and provides a valuable, coherent picture of automation's socio-economic interactions.<br /><b><i>IEEE Technology and Society Magazine</i></b><br /><br />Ford offers ideas on changes in social policies, including guaranteed income, to keep our economy humming and prepare ourselves for a more automated future.<br /><b><i>Booklist</i></b><br /><br /><br />
zlib_text: Rise of the Robots
  
  ALSO BY Martin Ford:
  The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating 
  Technology and the Economy of the Future
  
  Rise of 
  the Robots
  Technology and the 
  Threat of a Jobless Future
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