The End of Work: The Decline of the Global Labor Force and the Dawn of the Post-Market Era by Jeremy Rifkin is an intellectually stimulating piece of non-fiction that is right up this blog's alley. Written in 1995 is talks about many issues we are facing today in early 2000th: rising "technological" unemployment, governments trying to fix the situation, trickle down non-effect and many others.
Cannot agree more on the "the robots are replacing the working class" thesis, the question is of course not how to save all the worker from loosing their often dehumanizingly repetitive jobs. Could it be: how to retrain the workers to make them a productive force of the emerging knowledge economy?
I am sure, we will see this book referred to more and more in the coming years, so read up!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Robots Start Replacing Human Workers at Foxconn
First robots have arrived to replace Chinese workers at FoxConn. Full article at singularityhub.com
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