- Who is this post for? Everyone
- What does it discuss? The winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year
- How does it benefit you? Increased awareness regarding the future safety of your job and income, and solutions to protect it
Last week we wrote about how to start evaluating if your job is at threat due to it being automated in the future. This week we look at the recent winner of the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, for it gives a more comprehensive overview of the very near future and offers advice and solutions to prepare for it.
There are many who believe this to be a time in our human history when market forces should not be allowed to blindly prevail, and that public policy should dictate the future of our working lives. As the author of the book Martin Ford says himself, “I’m not arguing that the technology is a bad thing. It could be a great thing if the robots did all our jobs and we didn’t have to work. The problem is that your job and income are packaged together. So if you lose your job, you also lose your income, and we don’t have a very good system in place to deal with that.”
We’d be really interested to hear your thoughts upon reading the book. Are Ford’s solutions practical or viable? Only time and collective debate will tell.
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