More and more people are forced to drive Ubers and Lyfts and design logos and PowerPoint presos on Fiverr while looking for better circumstances, but those circumstances are becoming increasingly remote.
In other words, companies will have software that actively finds ways to remove human labor from the equation, except for freelance “gig-ers” who can be underpaid and have no associated benefits. The company offers large corporations an intelligent software platform that almost completely manages the execution of projects that were once highly labor intensive through a combination of crowd sourcing and automation.” Layers of middle management will evaporate, and many of the jobs now performed by both clerical workers and skilled analysts will be simply disappear … a start-up company based in the New York City area, offers an especially vivid example of the dramatic impact that white-collar automation is likely to have on organizations. Automated vehicles or construction-scale 3D printers may eventually destroy millions of jobs.”Īnd white-collar cognitive jobs are not immune to the effects of AI and automation. “Robotics and self-service technology in the service sector will continue to make inroads, holding down wages and leaving relatively unskilled workers with few options. He examines the likely, probable effects of robotics, automation and artificial intelligence across a variety of sectors.Īlmost all jobs are at risk, especially those that are highly repetitive, from fast-food workers (robotic hamburger machines) to drivers (self-driving taxis and trucks), and from retail (kiosks) to construction (3D printed buildings). Martin Ford, the author, is a clear-eyed chronicler of our impending economic doom.
The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future is that voiceover, in terrifying detail. In all of those dystopian movies about the future, the introductory voiceover usually explains in a few sentences what led to the breakdown of society.
In a world gone mad, as we sit around our garbage fires eating rat kebabs, those of us who read this book will keep saying “told you so” until we’re driven from the camp into the shambles of society.
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