Screen LibraryThe globotics upheaval : globalization, robotics, and the future of work /
" At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service and professional jobs. Instant machine translation is melting language barriers, so the...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2019] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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" At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service and professional jobs. Instant machine translation is melting language barriers, so the ranks of these "tele-migrants" will soon include almost every educated person in the world. Computing power is dissolving humans' monopoly on thinking, enabling AI-trained computers to compete for many of the same white-collar jobs. Richard Baldwin, one of the world's leading globalization experts, ar "Digital technology will bring globalisation and robotics (globotics) to previously shielded professional and service sectors. Jobs will be displaced at the eruptive pace of digital technology while they will be replaced at a normal historical pace. The mismatch will produce a backlash - the globotics upheaval"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780190901769 0190901764 |
| Index Number: | HD6331 |
| CLC: |
TP1-05 TP242-05 F241.21 |
| Call Number: | F241.21/B182 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Part I. Historical transformation, upheaval, backlash, and resolution. We've been here before: the great transformation -- The second great transformation: from things to thoughts -- Part II. The globotics transformation. The digitech impulse driving globotics -- Telemigration and the globotics transformation -- Automation and the globotics transformation -- The globotics upheaval -- New backlash, new shelterism -- Globotics resolution: a more human, more local future -- The future doesn't take appointments: preparing for the new jobs. |