A review by hoboken
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford

5.0

Fascinating, important, a nonfiction page turner. Ford explains complicated things clearly and with sophistication. Has an especially impressive grasp on what you might call economography (maybe there's an actual word for this), the ways in which economists have dealt with developments in their own field. In the 50's this book would have had caused the kind of national conversation The Lonely Crowd and the The Status Seekers did. Now nobody reads except us GRers. Still the machines are coming for us--self-driving cars and 3D printing are already here, and millions of jobs are about to be wiped out. Are we going to be ready?