Based on a review by Pierre Papon
Jobs and robots decidedly represent an inexhaustible subject for American experts.
Martin Ford, who has 25 years of experience developing IT in Silicon Valley, muses here on the consequences of the emergence of robots for employment in tomorrow’s societies.
In 10 chapters Ford brings out the complexity of the machine/employment relation in a world that will be transformed by the digital and the many forms of automation. He reminds us that, whereas in the twentieth century labour left agricultural jobs destroyed by mechanization to find new ones in industry, the situation ...