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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane coauthored the bestselling Teaching the New Basic Skills (Free Press). Levy is the Daniel Rose Professor of Urban Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His books include The New Dollars and Dreams: American Incomes and Economic Change. Murnane, an economist, is Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society at Harvard University. His books include Who Will Teach?: Policies...
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Language
English
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Description
Examines the effects of accelerating technology on the economic system.
"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required?...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
In the spirit of Nickel and Dimed, a necessary and revelatory expose of the invisible human workforce that powers the web--and that foreshadows the true future of work. Hidden beneath the surface of the web, lost in our wrong-headed debates about AI, a new menace is looming. Anthropologist Mary L. Gray and computer scientist Siddharth Suri team up to unveil how services delivered by companies like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Uber can only function...
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Series
In focus volume IF12124
Publisher
Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2022-
Edition
[Library of Congress public edition].
Language
English
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 114-377
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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