Continuing with the month's theme on the New Economy, we will look at how technology has led to a jobless recovery. In the eBook, Race against the Machine, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson see automation to be different from of the past. Now automation cause more jobs to be lost than gained. They see the trend to continue, but also see the crisis as a good thing.
Here are three TED talks by the two authors.
- Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
- Erik Brynjolfsson:The key to growth? Race with the machines
- Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?
McAfee and Brynjolfsson have recently updated their eBook as a regular book, The Second Machine Age.
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For those interested in a more comprehensive talk by McAfee and Brynjolfsson, here is a video of the authors presenting their idea of how the new automation is killing jobs to Google.
What is "fair" or "fair share"?
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