A consensus-shattering account of automation technologies and their effect on workplaces and the labor market Silicon Valley titans, politicians, techno-futurists and social critics have united in arguing that we are living on the cusp of an era of rapid technological automation, heralding the end of work as we know it. But does the much-discussed “rise of the robots” really ex...(展开全部)

Artificial Intelligence is a seemingly neutral technology, but it is increasingly used to manage workforces and make decisions to hire and fire employees. Its proliferation in the workplace gives the impression of a fairer, more efficient system of management. A machine can't discriminate, after all. Augmented Exploitation explores the reality of the impact of AI on workers' li...(展开全部)

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

Alister E. McGrath envisions a pivotal role for evangelicalism in shaping the future of Christianity.

We spend most of our waking lives at work - in occupations often chosen by our unthinking sixteen-year-old selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what it might mean for us. Equally intrigued by work's pleasures and its pains, Alain de Botton here heads out into the under-charted worlds of the office, the factory, the fishing fleet and the logistics centre, ...(展开全部)

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among soc...(展开全部)

安妮·凯斯（Anne Case） 普林斯顿大学1886年亚历山大·斯图尔特经济学和公共事务教授、伍德罗·威尔逊公共和国际事务学院荣誉教授，2020年当选美国国家科学院院士。她也是美国国家经济研究局研究员、计量经济学会会员，美国国家医学学会、美国艺术与科学学会和美国哲学学会成员，曾获得国际卫生经济学协会的肯尼斯·阿罗健康经济学奖、美国国家科学院院刊科扎雷利奖。 安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton） 2015年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，普林斯顿大学德怀特·艾森豪威尔经济学和国际事务名誉教授。此前曾任美国经济学会主席、世界银行研究审核委员会主席等。他的主要研究领域为贫困、不平等、健康、福祉和经济发展等，著有《逃离不平等》。 2019年，《展望》杂志将安格斯·迪顿和安妮·凯斯评为年度“世界50大思想家”。

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row―a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug o...(展开全部)