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The Globotics Upheaval - Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work (Hardcover)
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The Globotics Upheaval - Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work (Hardcover)
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At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical
changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing
talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete
for service and professional jobs. Instant machine translation is
melting language barriers, so the ranks of these "tele-migrants"
will soon include almost every educated person in the world.
Computing power is dissolving humans' monopoly on thinking,
enabling AI-trained computers to compete for many of the same
white-collar jobs. The combination of globalization and robotics is
creating the globotics upheaval, and it threatens the very
foundations of the liberal welfare-state. Richard Baldwin, one of
the world's leading globalization experts, argues that the inhuman
speed of this transformation threatens to overwhelm our capacity to
adapt. From computers in the office to automatic ordering systems
in restaurants, we are familiar with the how digital technologies
offer convenience while also eliminating jobs. Globotics will
disrupt the lives of millions of white-collar workers much faster
than automation, industrialization, and globalization disrupted the
lives of factory workers in previous centuries. The result will be
a backlash. Professional, white-collar, and service workers will
agitate for a slowing of the unprecedented pace of disruption, as
factory workers have done in years past. Baldwin argues that the
globotics upheaval will be countered in the short run by
"shelter-ism" - government policies that shelter some service jobs
from tele-migrants and thinking computers. In the long run, people
will work in more human jobs-activities that require real people to
use the uniquely human ability of independent thought-and this will
strengthen bonds in local communities. Offering effective
strategies such as focusing on the social value of work, The
Globotics Upheaval will help people prepare for the oncoming wave
of an advanced robotic workforce.
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