The Globotics Upheaval: Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work

by Richard Baldwin

Book Overview

At the root of inequality, unemployment, and populism are radical changes in the world economy. Digital technology is allowing talented foreigners to telecommute into our workplaces and compete for service and professional jobs. Instant machine translation is melting language barriers, so the ranks of these "tele-migrants" will soon include almost every educated person in the world. Computing power is dissolving humans' monopoly on thinking, enabling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190901764
• ISBN13: 9780190901769
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.2"