The Rise of the Robots: FT and McKinsey Business Book of the Year

Intelligent algorithms are already well on their way to making white collar jobs obsolete: travel agents, data-analysts, and paralegals are currently in the firing line. In the near future, doctors, taxi-drivers and ironically even computer programmers are poised to be replaced by 'robots'. Without a radical reassessment of our economic and political structures, we risk the implosion of the capitalist economy. In The Rise of the Robots , technology expert Martin Ford systematically outlines the achievements of artificial intelligence and uses a wealth of economic data to illustrate the terrifying societal implications. From health and education to finance and technology, his warning is stark: no job is safe. The robots are coming and we have to decide now whether the future will bring prosperity or catastrophe.