Surviving the machine age : intelligent technology and the transformation of human work / Kevin LaGrandeur, James J. Hughes, editors.
This book examines the current state of the technologically-caused unemployed, and attempts to answer the question of how to proceed into an era beyond technological unemployment. Beginning with an overview of the most salient issues, the experts collected in this work present their own novel vision...
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Table of Contents:
- Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction: An Overview of Emerging Technology and Employment in the Early Twenty-First Century; Technological Unemployment: The Scope of the Problem; What Types of Workers Are Being Displaced, and How?; The Consequences to Society of Job Displacement; Possible Solutions to Technological Unemployment; Reducing Working Hours for Everyone to Provide More Work; Instituting a Basic Income Guarantee; Using Micro-Fees and Micro-Incomes to Offset Forced Unemployment
- Long-Term Solutions Are Harder to See, but the Past Shows a WayOverview of Upcoming Chapters; Note; References; Chapter 2: Is Technological Unemployment Real? An Assessment and a Plea for Abundance Economics; Introduction; Part I: The Problem: Technological Unemployment, Income Inequality, and the Automation Economy; The Nature of Technological Unemployment; Jobless Growth; Income Inequality; Part II: The Solution: A New Philosophy of Economic Theory; Abundance Economics Phase I: Automation Economy Alleviates Material-Goods Scarcity
- Abundance Economics Phase II: Actualization Economy Creates Social Goods for Human ThrivingDiscussion and Limitations; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: Creative Destruction: Emerging Technology and the Changing Course of Job Creation; Creative Destruction; The Historical Observation; The Suffering and the Theory; The Political Dangers; The Future; Is There Something Fundamentally Different About Our Time?; The Phase Change; Preparation; Why We All Need to Take Preparation Personally; A Final Thought; References
- Chapter 4: Employment in the Age of Em: Simulated Brains and the Economics of LaborBrain Emulations; The Age of Em; Humans; References; Chapter 5: Building a Post-work Utopia: Technological Unemployment, Life Extension, and the Future of Human Flourishing; Introduction: Unemployment in an Aging World; Assumptions and Clarifications; Will There Be a Longevity Dividend?; Flourishing and Well-Being in a Post-Work Age; The Post-Work Utopia as a World of Games; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 6: Can We Build a Resilient Employment Market for an Uncertain Future?; Resilience and Opportunity
- EducationHuman Skills and Nonstandard Work; Policies and Regulation; Basic Income; A Cyborg Strategy; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Unconditional Basic Income as a Solution to Technological Unemployment; What's the Catch?; That Wrench Is Technological Unemployment; The Invisible Sheep; The Missing Right; The Return of the Common Wealth; References; Chapter 8: Policy Solutions to Technological Unemployment; Introduction; Incremental Solutions; Mandating Employment; Government Job Creation; Work Sharing; Employment Impact Statements; Educational and Training Reforms