'Jobocalypse: The End of Human Jobs and How Robots Will Replace Them' by Ben Way

[Aaron]

Just finished reading the new book by Ben Way called Jobocalypse: The End of Human Jobs and How Robots Will Replace Them. The book explores the present and future of robotics and its impact on the economy, and argues that automated technology will come to increasingly usurp jobs from us humans (as well as what we can do about this). It's a fun and very interesting read. I've written a full executive summary of the book available here: http://newbooksinbrief.com/2013/07/24...

Cheers,
Aaron

[Leonardo]

Sounds interesting. I've often wondered about that myself, but the flipside of the debate is that you might have said the same thing during the Industrial Revolution yet we still manage to have to go to work everyday... Really interesting food for thought though. When I was deciding what field of medicine to enter one of my considerations was the possibility of technology usurping my job in the future. It sounds "crazy," but the reality is that many hospitals use teleradiology services at night that can be located anywhere (I met once a radiologist who lived on a boat in the Caribbean and made his living reading studies for hospitals in The United States). It's also a threat to pathologists, although that hasn't been fully realized yet.