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The Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Hardcover)
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The Technology Trap - Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (Hardcover)
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"Made me look at the industrial revolution, invention, sleeping
beauties, contexts and the forces that shape our societies
differently."—David Byrne, New York Times Book Review How the
history of technological revolutions can help us better understand
economic and political polarization in the age of automation From
the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence,
The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of
technological progress and how it has radically shifted the
distribution of economic and political power among society’s
members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution
created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but
the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating for
large swaths of the population. Middle-income jobs withered, wages
stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and
economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends, Frey documents,
broadly mirror those in our current age of automation, which began
with the Computer Revolution. Just as the Industrial Revolution
eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society,
artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same.
But Frey argues that this depends on how the short term is managed.
In the nineteenth century, workers violently expressed their
concerns over machines taking their jobs. The Luddite uprisings
joined a long wave of machinery riots that swept across Europe and
China. Today’s despairing middle class has not resorted to
physical force, but their frustration has led to rising populism
and the increasing fragmentation of society. As middle-class jobs
continue to come under pressure, there’s no assurance that
positive attitudes to technology will persist. The Industrial
Revolution was a defining moment in history, but few grasped its
enormous consequences at the time. The Technology Trap demonstrates
that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons
of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.
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