Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future (57 page)
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Authors: Martin Ford
S-curves,
66–67
,
68
,
69
,
70–71
,
250
secular stagnation,
274n
self-driving cars,
See
autonomous cars
Semiconductor Industry Association,
80
service sector,
12–20
The Shallows
(Carr),
254
Shang-Jin Wei,
225
Silvercar,
20
Simonyi, Charles,
71
single-payer health care system,
165–167
,
169
The Singularity Is Near
(Kurzweil),
234
Singularity University,
234
skill biased technological change (SBTC),
48
skills, acquisition of by computers,
xv–xvi
Skipper, John,
201
“Skynet,”
22
Slate
(magazine),
153
Smalley, Richard,
244–245
Smith, Adam,
73
Smith, Will,
111
social media response program,
93–94
social safety net,
278
.
See also
basic income guarantee
Social Security disability program,
43
,
262
Social Security income,
222
solar power,
282
Sony Corporation,
4
Soviet Union,
161n
Spain,
221
Sprague, Shawn,
281
Spread Networks,
114
stagflation,
33
stagnant wages,
34–38
Stanek, Roman,
107
MOOCs and,
132
,
133
,
135–136
,
142
Staples,
17
Star Trek
(television program),
246
,
247
“StatsMonkey” software,
84
Stiglitz, Joseph,
203
student identification, online courses and,
136
,
137
student loans,
124
,
126
,
140
,
196
,
214
,
217
,
251
Suitable Technologies, Inc.,
8
Summers, Larry,
274n
Sun Microsystems,
243
Super Crunchers
(Ayres),
125
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
201–202
surgical robots,
154–155
Stuxnet worm,
22
Switzerland,
268
Taibbi, Matt,
56
Taylor, John B.,
37
Teamsters Union,
17
technological change/progress
economic growth and,
65
productivity and,
33
S-curves of,
66–67
,
68
skill biased,
48
welfare of American workforce and,
x
technology
disruptive,
xviii
,
66
golden era of,
51
graying workforce and,
220–223
historical narrative of modern,
51–58
investment in labor-saving,
227–228
manufacturing jobs and,
55
relationship between employment and,
175–176
unskilled worker wages and,
208–209
telepresence robots,
119–120
,
157
Tesla,
3
textile industry, US,
8–9
Thatcher, Margaret,
258
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (Feynman),
241
thinking machine,
229–233
.
See also
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
three-dimensional chips,
70
,
70n
Thrun, Sebastian,
132
,
133
,
134
,
135
,
139
,
182
,
256
Time
(magazine),
111
,
160
,
191
,
235
Tokyo University entrance exam, creating artificial intelligence system to pass,
127–128
Toys “R” Us,
17
tragedy of the commons problem,
265
Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
(Kurzweil & Grossmann),
235
Transits—Into an Abyss
(Iamus),
111
translation tools,
89–90
,
120–121
,
130
Triple Revolution report,
30–31
,
250
trucks, automated,
190–191
Tunisia,
46
TurtleBot,
7
“21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act,”
242
Twitter,
114
2001: A Space Odyssey
(film),
157n
unemployment
consumer behavior and,
211
education/job retraining and,
249–250
environmental effects of fear of,
283–284
long-term,
ix
,
xvi
,
45–46
,
211
,
280
machines and,
ix–x
rates of,
33
,
41
,
44–45
,
172
,
211–212
,
249
,
250
,
276
youth,
221
unions, decline in power of,
57–58
United Auto Workers,
193
United States
college graduates overqualified for occupations in,
251
consumer spending in,
54
economic stagnation in,
65
elder care in,
155
health care as precent of economy,
146
immigration policy and automated agriculture in,
26
income inequality in,
46–48
job-market polarization in,
49–51
taxpayer funding of basic information technology research in,
80–81
textile industry,
8–9
universal health coverage,
279
universal translator, offshoring and,
121
University of Akron,
141
University of Alabama,
141
University of California system,
140
University of California, Berkeley, Labor Center
14
University of Michigan, MOOCs and,
133
,
137
University of Missouri,
141
University of Pennsylvania, MOOCs and,
133–134
University of Wisconsin,
138
,
142
Urban Institute,
46
Urmson, Chris,
183–184
U-Systems, Inc.,
152
value-added tax (VAT),
272–273
Vardakostas, Alexandros,
12–13
VAT.
See
value-added tax (VAT)
