Books

Books

This page lists some of the most important an influential books about the coming robot revolution.

The images are clickable links through to Amazon, where you can buy the books. [1]These are affiliate links, which means that Amazon share a few pennies from their profits with me, for directing you to their site – you pay exactly the same price as you would normally

Martin Ford – Rise of the Robots

The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment

Erick Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee – Race against the Machine

Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

Erick Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee – The Second Machine Age

The Second Machine Age - Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Jerry Kaplan – Humans need not Apply

Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Thomas Davenport and Julia Kirby – Only Humans Need Apply

Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines

Richard and Daniel Susskind – The Future of the Professions

The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts

Rise and Fall of American Growth – Robert Gordon

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)

The Industries of the Future – Alec Ross

The Industries of the Future

Kevin Kelly – The Inevitable

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Jim Mellon – Fast Forward

Fast Forward: The Technologies and Companies Shaping Our Future

Yuval Noah Harari – Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

 Thomas Rid – Rise of the Machines

Rise of the Machines: the lost history of cybernetics

Margaret Boden – AI: Its Nature and Future

AI: Its nature and future

Luke Dormehl – Thinking Machines

Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

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1. ⇧ These are affiliate links, which means that Amazon share a few pennies from their profits with me, for directing you to their site – you pay exactly the same price as you would normally
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