Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 368 pages

Publisher:INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US

Imprint:Basic Books

ISBN:9780465097531

Published:12 Jul 2016

Weight:316g

Dimensions:141 x 213 x 3 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

机器人端咖啡，电脑当医生，数据分析越来越便利精准，

我们以为科技将创造新一波繁荣，却低估了它推动世界变迁的速度！

机器开始全面取代人类工作，所得更不均、失业更扩大的灾难才开始！

我们该如何面对未来？

一天，亨利福特带汽车工人工会领导人参观最新的自动化工厂，正为了自动化生产线不需要工人，洋洋得意。工人工会领导人回了亨利福特一句话，「你打算如何让这些机器人买你的车呢？」

这段对话可能是虚拟的，但是却预示了科技长期快速发展下，工资、生产力、 消费力架构的社会经济结构，已经被推到了巨变的引爆点。

过去，机器是提高劳工生产力的工具，今天，机器就是劳工，取代的不只是低技能的工作。

电脑成为「有思考能力」的机器，能决策 、会学习、甚至有好奇心，加上大数据与云端运算，需要依赖电脑资讯工作的白领阶层终将被机器、软体所吞噬。这些专业化、例行性与可预测的工作，包括律师、药剂师、医师、分析师、IT技术人员、甚至公司主管等都将一一被取代。

机器佔据工作机会，但机器人只生产、不消费，将使薪资成长停滞、所得更集中在少数富有者身上，大量的消费者最终因缺乏足够的所得与购买力，使得社会失去消费动能，终将威胁到经济成长。

不同于一般科技人或趋势家，作者马丁‧福特（Martin Ford）是成功创业家，长期观察软体发展、从独特的科技对社会的影响角度切入，引证大量资料，率先详尽研究机器智能和机器人科技可能带来的衝击，分析出因科技而生的七大致命的经济趋势。

不管我们愿不愿意，机器接管工作的脚步只会加快，熟悉的生活都将终结，我们势必要重新思考经济运作，才能因应科技强大的颠覆破坏力。

任何想了解科技进步对自己、后代、社会前景有何影响的人，都应该赶快拿起这本书。

The New York Times-bestselling guide to how automation is changing the economy, undermining work, and reshaping our lives

Winner of Best Business Book of the Year awards from the Financial Times and from Forbes

"Lucid, comprehensive, and unafraid . . . ;an indispensable contribution to a long-running argument." -- Los Angeles Times

What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? As technology continues to accelerate and machines begin taking care of themselves, fewer people will be necessary. Artificial intelligence is already well on its way to making "good jobs" obsolete: many paralegals, journalists, office workers, and even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by robots and smart software. As progress continues, blue and white collar jobs alike will evaporate, squeezing working -- and middle-class families ever further. At the same time, households are under assault from exploding costs, especially from the two major industries-education and health care-that, so far, have not been transformed by information technology. The result could well be massive unemployment and inequality as well as the implosion of the consumer economy itself.

The past solutions to technological disruption, especially more training and education, aren't going to work. We must decide, now, whether the future will see broad-based prosperity or catastrophic levels of inequality and economic insecurity. Rise of the Robots is essential reading to understand what accelerating technology means for our economic prospects-not to mention those of our children-as well as for society as a whole.

作者简介

马丁·福特，机器人革命、人工智能、工作自动化领域的一流专家，在计算机设计和软件开发领域拥有超过25年的实践经验，著有《未来之光：自动化、技术发展和未来的经济》一书。

Martin Ford, the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm, has over twenty-five years of experience in computer design and software development. The author of The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the Future, he lives in Sunnyvale, California.