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Authors: Martin Ford
nurse practitioners,
151n
Nutonian, Inc.,
109
occupational polarization,
50
occupational specialization,
73
,
74
Occupy Wall Street movement,
46
Och, Franz,
90
offshoring
electronic,
59
,
116
of information technology,
52
job-market polarization and,
50
MOOCs and,
144
of software development,
64
white-collar jobs and,
115–121
1–2–4 problem,
224
online activities, winner-take-all distribution of profits,
76–78
online courses,
131–135
online language translation tool,
89–90
,
130
opportunity cost, comparative advantage and,
75
Organovo,
180
Ostry, Jonathan D.,
214–215
Our Final Invention
(Barrat),
238–239
outsourcing
of information technology,
52
of legal discovery work,
124–125
See also
offshoring
Page, Larry,
236
“The Painting Fool,”
112–113
parallel systems,
71–72
Parkdale Mills,
8–9
Paro (robot),
155–156
part-time jobs,
49–51
Patent Office’s Hall of Fame,
234
pathology, artificial intelligence and,
152–153
Pauling, Linus,
30
PCE.
See
personal consumption expenditure (PCE)
Peltzman, Sam,
267
Peltzman effect,
267
Penn State, MOOCs and,
136
people analytics,
93
Perelman, Les,
130–131
per-employee valuations, technology sector and,
175
permanent income hypothesis,
210–211
personal consumption expenditure (PCE),
202n
personal robots,
7
pharmacists,
172–173n
pharmacy robotics,
153–155
Philippines, income inequality in,
46
Pierson, Paul,
57
Piketty, Thomas,
275
Pinker, Steven,
237
“Piquant” system,
99–100
plagiarism, MOOCs and,
136–137
Player Piano
(Vonnegut),
32
PlayStation,
4
plutocracy,
219
plutonomy,
198
polarization, job-market,
50–51
politics
advancing technology and,
57–58
financial elite’s influence over,
47–48
,
59–60
guaranteed income concept and,
260–261
,
278–279
post-scarcity economy,
247
Poterba, James,
222
poverty trap,
262
Prey
(Crichton),
244
prices
deflation and,
216–217
drug,
170–171
effect of automation on,
215–216
PrimeSense,
4
Princeton University, MOOCs and,
133
Principles of Economics
(Frank & Bernanke),
37
Principles of Economics
(Taylor & Weerapana),
37
productivity,
206–207
defined,
35n
information technology and,
52
recessions and,
207–208
technological progress and,
33
wages and,
xi
,
33
,
35–38
,
38n
product lifecycles, robots and,
11
professionals, erosion of employment for,
xvi–xvi
“Professionals Against Machine Scoring of Student Essays in High Stakes Assessment” (petition),
129
,
130
progress, lack of broad-based,
64–65
proton beam facilities,
164
public universities, MOOCs and,
142
purchasing power
distribution of,
197
,
198
guaranteed income and,
265–266
jobs and,
xvii
“Quill” software,
84–86
Rabkin, Eric,
137
Race Against the Machine
(Brynjolfsson & McAfee),
60
Radical Abundance
(Drexler),
243
,
246
radio-frequency identification (RFID),
154
,
157
radiologists, artificial intelligence and,
xv
,
152
Rand, Ayn,
264
recessions
investment and,
227
months for employment to recover,
45
productivity and,
207–208
stagnant income, rising costs, and,
217–218
See also
Great Recession
recursive improvement, Artificial General Intelligence and,
231–232
Redbox movie rental kiosks,
18–19
regulatory capture,
170
religious overtones of Singularity,
235
“Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution” (King),
29–30
rent seeking, financialization and,
55–56
Republicans, income distribution preferred by,
47n
reshoring,
8–12
resource depletion, technology and,
xvii
,
282–283
restocking, automated,
18–19
retail sector,
16–20
,
87
,
88
.
See also
online retailing
retirement income,
222
Reuther, Walter,
193
reverse engineering the brain,
237
RFID.
See
radio-frequency identification (RFID)
Riegel v. Medtronic, Inc.
,
150n
risk, Peltzman effect and,
267–268
RoboBusiness conference/tradeshow,
7
Robot & Frank
(film),
155
robotics,
6–8
cloud,
20–23
See also
automation
;
robots
robotic walkers,
157
robots
in agriculture,
23–26
box-moving,
1–2
,
5–6
consumer,
197n
educational,
7
elder-care,
155–158
hospital and pharmacy,
153–155
industrial,
1–5
,
10–11
personal,
7
telepresence,
119–120
,
157
Rolling Stone
(magazine),
56
Romney, Mitt,
272
Roosevelt, Franklin,
279
Rosenwald, Michael,
107
ROS (Robot Operating System),
6
,
7
Russell, Stuart,
229
Rutter, Brad,
101
Sachs, Jeffrey,
60
Saez, Emmanuel,
46
safety, autonomous cars and,
184–185
,
187
Samsung Electronics,
70n
Samuelson, Paul,
x
Sand, Benjamin M.,
127
San Jose State University,
134
Sankai, Yoshiyuki,
156–157
Santelli, Rick,
170
savings, China’s high rate of,
224–225
SBTC.
See
skill biased technological change (SBTC)
Schlosser, Eric,
210
Schwarzenegger, Arnold,
22