Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (51 page)
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Authors: Martin Ford
predictions of effect of,
30–34
reshoring and,
10
retail sector and,
16–20
risk of,
256
service sector and,
12–20
solutions to rise of,
273–278
(
see also
basic income guarantee
)
as threat to workers with varying education and skill levels,
xiv–xv
,
59
of total US employment,
223
Triple Revolution report,
30–31
white-collar,
85–86
,
105–106
,
126–128
See also
robotics
;
robots
automotive industry,
3
,
76
,
193–194
autonomous cars,
xiii
,
94
,
176
,
181–191
as shared resource,
186–190
Autor, David,
50
Average Is Over
(Cowen),
123
,
126n
AVT, Inc.,
18
Ayres, Ian,
125
Babbage, Charles,
79
Barra, Hugo,
121
basic income guarantee,
31n
,
257–261
approaches to,
261–262
downsides and risks of,
268–271
economic argument for,
264–267
economic risk taking and,
267–268
incentives and,
261–264
paying for,
271–273
BD Focal Point GS Imaging System,
153
Beaudry, Paul,
127
Beijing Genomics Institute,
236n
Bell Labs,
159
Berg, Andrew G.,
214–215
Bernanke, Ben,
37
collection of,
86–87
correlation
vs.
cause and,
88–89
,
102
deep learning and,
92–93
health care and,
159–160
knowledge-based jobs and,
93–96
machine learning and,
89–92
The Big Switch
(Carr),
72
Bilger, Burkhard,
186
“BinCam,”
125n
“Bitter Pill” (Brill),
160
Bloomberg,
113–114
Bluestone, Barry,
220
Borders,
16
Boston Consulting Group,
9
Boston Globe
(newspaper),
149
Boston Red Sox,
83
Boston University,
141
Bowley, Arthur,
38
brain, reverse engineering of human,
237
breast cancer screening,
152
Brint, Steven,
251
Brooks, Rodney,
5
Brown, Jerry,
134
Bureau of Labor Statistics,
13
,
16
,
38n
,
158
,
222–223
,
281
Bush, George W.,
116
business interest lobbying, economic policy and,
57–58
“Busy child scenario,” (Barrat)
238–239
Calico,
236
California Institute of Technology,
133
“Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia?” (Kaku),
247n
capital
individual endowments of,
273–275
taxes on,
277–278
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
(Piketty),
275
capitalism, drive to automate and,
255–256
Car and Driver
(magazine),
185
carbon tax,
272
cars, autonomous,
xiii
,
94
,
176
,
181–191
cause, big data and correlation
vs.
,
102
CBE.
See
competency-based education (CBE)
CBS News
,
249
CDOs.
See
collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)
Center for Economic and Policy Research,
171n
Central Intelligence Agency,
46
,
85
cervical cancer screening,
152–153
chargemaster prices,
160–161
,
164
cheating, MOOCs and,
136–137
Cheney, Dick,
240
Chicago, data portal of city of,
87–88
China
American consumer spending and,
54
college graduates overqualified for occupations in,
251
consumer demand in,
223–227
globalization and,
53
industrial automation in,
3
,
10–11
,
225–226
labor’s share of national income in,
41
offshoring and,
120
reshoring and,
9
saving rate in,
224–225
super-intelligence and,
236n
China rebalancing,
224–225
Christensen, Clayton,
142
Chronicle of Higher Education
(journal),
139
Chrysler,
76
Circuit City,
16
Cisco,
234
citizen’s dividend,
266–267
Cleveland Clinic,
102
Clifford, Stephanie,
8
climate change,
xvii
,
211–212
,
282–283
Clinton, Bill,
242
cloud computing,
52
,
104–107
,
109
cloud robotics,
20–23
cobalt poisoning,
145–146
cognitive capability, global competition for jobs and,
120
cognitive computer chip,
72
cognitive computing,
96–104
collaboration software,
64
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail
(Diamond),
x
collateralized debt obligations (CDOs),
56
college-educated workers,
120–121
,
126–128
college graduates, declining income and underemployment for recent,
48–49
College Unbound
(Selingo),
140
college wage premium,
48n
Colton, Simon,
112
“The Coming Technological Singularity” (Vinge),
233
community colleges,
276–277
comparative advantage,
73–75
compensation.
See
wages
competency-based education (CBE),
138
computers
acceleration of power,
xii–xiii
,
68
(
see also
Moore’s Law
)
acquisition of skills by,
xv–xvi