A world without work : technology, automation, and how we should respond
(2020)
By:
Susskind, Daniel
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
331.25/SUSSKIND,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, N.Y. : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company, 2020
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250173515, 1250173515 :, 1250173515, 9781250173515
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
A History of Misplaced Anxiety -- The Age of Labour -- The Pragmatist Revolution -- Underestimating Machines -- Task Encroachment -- Frictional Technological Unemployment -- Structural Technological Unemployment -- Technology and Inequality -- The Response -- Education and Its Limits -- The Big State -- Big Tech -- Meaning and Purpose
"A down-and-out so-and-so gets more than he bargained for when a wave of automation sweeps him and his kind out to an oil-black, petroleum-stink sea of indolent excess and the promise of A WORLD WITHOUT WORK"--