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predictions of effect of,
30–34
reshoring and,
10
retail sector and,
16–20
risk of,
256
service sector and,
12–20
solutions to rise of,
273–278
(
see also
basic income guarantee
)
as threat to workers with varying education and skill levels,
xiv–xv
,
59
of total US employment,
223
Triple Revolution report,
30–31
white-collar,
85–86
,
105–106
,
126–128
See also
robotics
;
robots

automotive industry,
3
,
76
,
193–194

autonomous cars,
xiii
,
94
,
176
,
181–191

as shared resource,
186–190

Autor, David,
50

Average Is Over
(Cowen),
123
,
126n

aviation,
66–67
,
179
,
256

AVT, Inc.,
18

Ayres, Ian,
125

Babbage, Charles,
79

Baker, Stephen,
96n
,
102n

Barra, Hugo,
121

Barrat, James,
231
,
238–239

basic income guarantee,
31n
,
257–261

approaches to,
261–262
downsides and risks of,
268–271
economic argument for,
264–267
economic risk taking and,
267–268
incentives and,
261–264
paying for,
271–273

Baxter (robot),
5–6
,
7
,
10

BD Focal Point GS Imaging System,
153

Beaudry, Paul,
127

Beijing Genomics Institute,
236n

Bell Labs,
159

Berg, Andrew G.,
214–215

Bernanke, Ben,
37

big data,
xv
,
25n
,
86–96

collection of,
86–87
correlation
vs.
cause and,
88–89
,
102
deep learning and,
92–93
health care and,
159–160
knowledge-based jobs and,
93–96
machine learning and,
89–92

The Big Switch
(Carr),
72

Bilger, Burkhard,
186

“BinCam,”
125n

“Bitter Pill” (Brill),
160

Blinder, Alan,
117–118
,
119

Blockbuster,
16
,
19

Bloomberg,
113–114

Bluestone, Barry,
220

Borders,
16

Boston Consulting Group,
9

Boston Globe
(newspaper),
149

Boston Red Sox,
83

Boston University,
141

Bowley, Arthur,
38

Bowley’s Law,
38–39
,
41

box-moving robot,
1–2
,
5–6

brain, reverse engineering of human,
237

breast cancer screening,
152

Brill, Steven,
160
,
163

Brin, Sergey,
186
,
188
,
189
,
236

Brint, Steven,
251

Brooks, Rodney,
5

Brown, Jerry,
134

Brynjolfsson, Erik,
60
,
122
,
254

Bureau of Labor Statistics,
13
,
16
,
38n
,
158
,
222–223
,
281

Bush, George W.,
116

business interest lobbying, economic policy and,
57–58

“Busy child scenario,” (Barrat)
238–239

Calico,
236

California Institute of Technology,
133

Canada,
41
,
58
,
167n
,
251

“Can Nanotechnology Create Utopia?” (Kaku),
247n

capital

individual endowments of,
273–275
taxes on,
277–278

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
(Piketty),
275

capitalism, drive to automate and,
255–256

Car and Driver
(magazine),
185

carbon-based materials,
70
,
70n

carbon nanotubes,
70n
,
245

carbon tax,
272

Carr, Nicholas,
72
,
254
,
256
,
257

cars, autonomous,
xiii
,
94
,
176
,
181–191

cause, big data and correlation
vs.
,
102

CBE.
See
competency-based education (CBE)

CBS News
,
249

CDOs.
See
collateralized debt obligations (CDOs)

Center for Economic and Policy Research,
171n

Central Intelligence Agency,
46
,
85

cervical cancer screening,
152–153

chargemaster prices,
160–161
,
164

cheating, MOOCs and,
136–137

Cheney, Dick,
240

chess,
97–98
,
122
,
123

Chicago, data portal of city of,
87–88

China

American consumer spending and,
54
college graduates overqualified for occupations in,
251
consumer demand in,
223–227
globalization and,
53
industrial automation in,
3
,
10–11
,
225–226
labor’s share of national income in,
41
offshoring and,
120
reshoring and,
9
saving rate in,
224–225
super-intelligence and,
236n

China rebalancing,
224–225

Chomsky, Noam,
129
,
236

Christensen, Clayton,
142

Chronicle of Higher Education
(journal),
139

Chrysler,
76

Circuit City,
16

Cisco,
234

Citigroup,
103
,
198

citizen’s dividend,
266–267

Cleveland Clinic,
102

Clifford, Stephanie,
8

climate change,
xvii
,
211–212
,
282–283

Clinton, Bill,
242

cloud computing,
52
,
104–107
,
109

cloud robotics,
20–23

cobalt poisoning,
145–146

cognitive capability, global competition for jobs and,
120

cognitive computer chip,
72

cognitive computing,
96–104

collaboration software,
64

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Succeed or Fail
(Diamond),
x

collateralized debt obligations (CDOs),
56

college-educated workers,
120–121
,
126–128

college graduates, declining income and underemployment for recent,
48–49

College Unbound
(Selingo),
140

college wage premium,
48n

Colton, Simon,
112

“The Coming Technological Singularity” (Vinge),
233

community colleges,
276–277

comparative advantage,
73–75

compensation.
See
wages

competency-based education (CBE),
138

computers

acceleration of power,
xii–xiii
,
68
(
see also
Moore’s Law
)
acquisition of skills by,
xv–xvi

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