The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment - Martin Ford

If a 'robot' could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed? Today it's travel agents, data-analyst...

An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.

Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Martin FordPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 25Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturi...

An urgent and eye-opening examination of how technology is leaving society open to myriad catastrophic threats.

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology.Publish...

When the residents of Little Town are lured in by an exciting new gadget from Baron Ben, Stick Boy is left to his own devices. And when robots star...

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology.Publish...

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The terrifying new role of technology in a world at war

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Dark Pools is the pacy, revealing, and profoundly chilling tale of how global markets have been hijacked by trading robots - many so self-directed ...

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Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we continue toiling away and us...

What will the economy of the future look like? Where will advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization lead? This groundbrea...

Reducere. The global economy deteriorated in a matter of months due to governments' mishandling of the coronavirus outbreak. General observers may describe t...

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Laura J. Martin examines ecological restoration's long history. Since the early 1900s, restorationists have confronted vexing philosophical questio...

Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstituti...

Before World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors would deput...

Acclaimed historian of US-Middle East foreign relations Douglas Little examines how American presidents, policy makers, and diplomats dealt with th...

Marvel's Avengers take on the cosmic bad guy Thanos in this all-new action-packed Little Golden Book! Iron Man, Wasp, Thor and Black Panther--membe...

DescriptionBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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How the KGB has plotted with mounting violence since 1999 to subdue the Ukrainians and how the population resisted through "Maidan" revolutions and...

Reducere. A fresh, meticulous, and entertaining account of Henry Ford, the Model-T, and the invention of the American car industry in the early twentieth cen...

Inspired by Roland Barthes's practice of "semioclasm" in Mythologies, this book offers a "technoclasm"; a cultural critique of US narratives, disco...

An essential guide to electoral authoritarianism-the most widespread, malignant and misunderstood type of dictatorship today-for scholars and stude...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Amy EdwardsIllustration(s): 18 b-w figures, 1 mapNumber of pages: 384Collection: Berkeley Serie...

'Anyone who enjoys mythology will find much to love in Pegasus and the Flame. Kate O'Hearn serves up a winning mix of modern adventure and classic ...

Reducere. DescriptionFinancial Times Best Books of the Year 2018TechRepublic Top Books Every Techie Should ReadBook Description: How will AI evolve and what ...

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This is a wake up call and vivid warning to readers through a vision of an avalanche that God gave Steve Hill, which represents the false and heret...

'Anyone who enjoys mythology will find much to love in Pegasus and the Flame. Kate O'Hearn serves up a winning mix of modern adventure and classic ...

An examination of the rapidly evolving state of political risk, and how to navigate it by former U.S. secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and Amy Z...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society--on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health--Pulitzer-Prize-winn...

Amazon's despotic automation and surveillance technologies may well be its downfallPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Alessandro DelfantiIllustration...

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism