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

1.0

The first 100 pages were fairly clear. From there to the end of the book was a random collection of doomsday-ish scenarios, often presented as near inevitabilities. I am surprised he did not toss in asteroid strikes and nuclear winter. Even in the semi-coherent early chapters he displays limited understanding of the economic ideas he uses. For example, in discounting the impact of off-shoring on wages in the U.S. there is no consideration of substitutability of labor and marginal pricing. All in all pretty disappointing. Fortunately I borrowed from the library versus buying it!