Automatic Society, Volume 1: The Future of Work

by Bernard Stiegler

Book Overview

In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the so-called 'data economy', is leading to a drastic reduction in employment in all areas - from the legal profession to truck driving, from medicine to stevedoring. In this first volume...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509506306
• ISBN13: 9781509506309
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"