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Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
Thomas H. Davenport
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Hardback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: KCF; KJD; KJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 268 x 31. Weight in Grams: 450.
An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future. Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It's not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers-writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians-are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence. The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that ... Read more
An invigorating, thought-provoking, and positive look at the rise of automation that explores how professionals across industries can find sustainable careers in the near future. Nearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It's not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers-writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians-are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence. The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062438614
SKU
V9780062438614
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About Thomas H. Davenport
Thomas H. Davenport is the President's Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College, the cofounder of the International Institute for Analytics, a fellow of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and a senior advisor to Deloitte Analytics. He teaches analytics and big data in executive programs at Babson, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan School, and Boston ... Read more
Reviews for Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines
A fine call to action in the face of uncertainty.
Financial Times The world the authors describe may be unsettling, but it is a world that we would all recognize and will likely live to see.
Wall Street Journal This badly needed and well-researched book makes a convincing and inspiring case that the challenges ahead could be a ... Read more
Financial Times The world the authors describe may be unsettling, but it is a world that we would all recognize and will likely live to see.
Wall Street Journal This badly needed and well-researched book makes a convincing and inspiring case that the challenges ahead could be a ... Read more