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EP 99: Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future - author and futurist Martin Ford


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“A great many college-educated, white-collar workers are going to discover that their jobs, too, are squarely in the sights as software automation and predictive algorithms advance rapidly in capability.” ― Martin Ford

Martin Ford is a futurist and the author of the New York Times bestselling "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future" (winner of the 2015 Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award and translated into more than 20 languages) and "The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future," as well as the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm. He has over 25 years experience in the fields of computer design and software development. He holds a computer engineering degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and an MBA degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

We talk:

The perfect storm of technology, climate change and technological unemployment

The automation wave Automation replacing human brains as well as brawn

Exponential Growth and Moore's Law

Universal Basic Income

Job Stagnation

Economic Singularity

Technological Unemployment

His upcoming book 'Architects of the Artifical Intelligence Revolution'

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