Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (58 page)
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Authors: Martin Ford
vending machines, intelligent,
17–19
Vinge, Vernor,
233
virtual immigration,
116–117
Vision Robotics,
23–24
vision system, robotic three-dimensional,
1–5
visual recognition, cloud robotics and,
21
von Drehle, David,
191
Vonnegut, Kurt,
32
wages
decline in real average,
34–35
deflation and,
216–217
productivity and,
xi
,
33
,
35–38
,
38n
stagnant,
34–38
Walgreens,
17
Wall Street, automated trading algorithms,
113–115
Wall Street Journal
(newspaper),
14
,
39
,
148
warehouses, online retailers and automated,
16–17
Washington Post
(newspaper),
xi
,
107
,
118
,
151
Watson (IBM),
20
,
96–104
,
118
,
229–230
in the cloud,
104–107
medical applications,
102–103
,
147–148
“WatsonPaths,”
102
wealth, global tax on,
275
Weerapana, Akila,
37
Western Governor’s University,
138
white-collar jobs
automation of,
85–86
,
105–106
,
126–128
offshoring and,
115–121
See also
knowledge-based jobs
White House Council of Economic Advisors,
116
“Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us” (Joy),
243–244
Wiener, Norbert,
31–32
,
33–34
,
63
Wii video game console,
3–4
Wilczek, Frank,
229
winner-take-all distribution, Internet sector and,
76–78
Winner Take All Politics
(Hacker & Pierson),
57
wisdom of crowds function,
227
women, labor force participation and,
41–42
work, number of hours worked,
281
workers/workforce
college-educated,
48–49
,
120–121
,
126–128
as consumers,
193–194
,
196–198
,
221–222
declining participation in,
41–43
effect of guaranteed income on,
268–270
fast food industry,
12–16
graying,
220–223
,
224
relationship with machines,
xii
technological progress and,
x
technology and wages for unskilled,
208–209
threat of automation for,
xiv–xv
See also
labor
Wright, Wilbur,
66
writing software,
84–86
Xbox 360 game console,
4
Xiaobo Zhang,
225
Yemen,
46