Title:	Surviving the Machine Age Intelligent Technology and the Transformation of Human Work
Authors:	LaGrandeur, Kevin James J. Hughes
Keywords:	Surviving the Machine Age
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	We put this book together because not enough attention is being paid to a technological and economic phenomenon that is hugely important to all of our futures: the increasing displacement of workers by machines. This trend is accelerating, and it threatens not only our livelihoods in the near future, but also, in the long run, the way we identify ourselves, because what we do for work is so often a large part of that identity. Other authors have outlined this problem, but so far few proposals to deal with this situation have been proposed, and they have not been discussed in one place. And the proposals that are available have gained too little attention by policy makers. This book is an effort to remedy that. The collection of experts on economics, philosophy, law, public policy, and technology in this book picks up where previous authors leave off not only by examining the current state of technologically caused unemployment, but also by providing answers to the question of how we can proceed into a new era beyond this kind of unemployment. Beginning with an overview of the problems, the authors of the chapters in this volume present novel visions of the future and suggestions for adapting to a more symbiotic economic relationship with the artificially intelligent, interconnected machinery that, at the moment, endangers our jobs. The suggestions in this book include unique and new modes of dealing with education, aging workers, government policies, and the machines themselves.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20570
ISBN:	978-3-319-51165-8
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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