Automation & Technological Unemployment (69 books)

A list of books about the relationship between technology and structural unemployment

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1	Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford 3.96 avg rating — 9,518 ratings score: 1,473, and 15 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson 3.91 avg rating — 12,105 ratings score: 1,387, and 14 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil 3.93 avg rating — 12,483 ratings score: 1,080, and 11 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari 4.19 avg rating — 285,075 ratings score: 989, and 10 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 27,326 ratings score: 854, and 9 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 20,811 ratings score: 787, and 8 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel 4.15 avg rating — 394,061 ratings score: 590, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Exponential Technology Series) by Peter H. Diamandis 4.05 avg rating — 11,623 ratings score: 586, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World by Christopher Steiner 3.82 avg rating — 3,633 ratings score: 583, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism by Jeremy Rifkin 3.92 avg rating — 2,068 ratings score: 578, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos 3.74 avg rating — 6,435 ratings score: 568, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 9,771 ratings score: 552, and 6 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Industries of the Future by Alec J. Ross (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 8,435 ratings score: 470, and 5 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 3,979 ratings score: 379, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek 3.97 avg rating — 2,558 ratings score: 374, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots by John Markoff 3.67 avg rating — 622 ratings score: 368, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 11,936 ratings score: 358, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era by James Barrat (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 3,899 ratings score: 297, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Manna by Marshall Brain 3.94 avg rating — 1,684 ratings score: 287, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 2,310 ratings score: 282, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy by Federico Pistono (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 279 ratings score: 281, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Humans Are Underrated: What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin 3.79 avg rating — 775 ratings score: 274, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 30,021 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? by Carl Benedikt Frey 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Galatea 2044 by R. Magnusholm (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 97 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey 4.11 avg rating — 621 ratings score: 199, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	A World Without Work: Technology, Automation and How We Should Respond by Daniel Susskind 3.83 avg rating — 1,853 ratings score: 198, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson 3.91 avg rating — 2,017 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Roula: The Girl in the Machine by R. Magnusholm (Goodreads Author) 4.47 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 195, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society by Howard Rheingold (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 138 ratings score: 194, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P.W. Singer (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 2,613 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Jerry Kaplan (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 1,254 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier 3.57 avg rating — 6,313 ratings score: 188, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	The Future of Business: Critical Insights on a Rapidly Changing World From 60 Futurists by Rohit Talwar (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Co-Author) 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings score: 181, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 by Taylor Pearson (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 1,485 ratings score: 175, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence by John Brockman 3.38 avg rating — 570 ratings score: 174, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Future of the Professions: How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts by Richard Susskind 3.63 avg rating — 1,060 ratings score: 173, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Revolutionary Wealth: How It Will Be Created and How It Will Change Our Lives by Alvin Toffler 3.87 avg rating — 663 ratings score: 162, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Four Futures: Life After Capitalism by Peter Frase 3.77 avg rating — 3,669 ratings score: 158, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us by Tim O'Reilly (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 1,911 ratings score: 153, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance by David F. Noble really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Business: A No-Nonsense Guide to Data Driven Technologies by Steven Finlay (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 205 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Job: Work and Its Future in a Time of Radical Change by Ellen Ruppel Shell 3.94 avg rating — 213 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Principles of Synthetic Intelligence: Psi: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition (Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures) by Joscha Bach 4.33 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World by Parmy Olson 4.06 avg rating — 4,145 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason 3.75 avg rating — 3,902 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Artificial Intelligence for Everyone by Steven Finlay (Goodreads Author) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	The Age of AI and Our Human Future by Henry Kissinger 3.44 avg rating — 5,254 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	The People's Republic of Chemicals by William J. Kelly 4.09 avg rating — 57 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Journey 2022: Resolving Digital Dilemmas by Atos Scientific Community 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'Neil 3.87 avg rating — 29,833 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future by Martin Ford 3.71 avg rating — 710 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 17,525 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Third Wave by Alvin Toffler 3.96 avg rating — 2,932 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Contra la renta básica. Por qué la redistribución de la renta restringe nuestras libertades y nos empobrece a todos by Juan Ramón Rallo 4.25 avg rating — 89 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Surviving AI: The promise and peril of artificial intelligence by Calum Chace (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 608 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	Our Robots, Ourselves: Robotics and the Myths of Autonomy by David A. Mindell (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 224 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Technological Unemployment and Structural Unemployment Debates: (Contributions in Economics and Economic History) by Gregory R. Woirol really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful by Charles Hugh Smith 3.42 avg rating — 36 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Economic Singularity: Artificial intelligence and the death of capitalism by Calum Chace (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 598 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Only Humans Need Apply: Winners and Losers in the Age of Smart Machines – Thriving with Technology in an Automated Future by Thomas H. Davenport 3.58 avg rating — 219 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L. Friedman 3.88 avg rating — 11,491 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee Erik Brynjolfsson 4.03 avg rating — 2,886 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	Robotic Nation & Robotic Freedom by Marshall Brain 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	The Mathematical Corporation: Where Machine Intelligence and Human Ingenuity Achieve the Impossible by Joshua Sullivan 3.39 avg rating — 162 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence by Amir Husain (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 864 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data by Malcolm Frank 3.57 avg rating — 496 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	Human + Machine: Reimagining Work in the Age of AI by Paul R. Daugherty 3.63 avg rating — 970 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Joseph E. Aoun (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 612 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars