How to Be Human in the Digital Economy

by Nicholas Agar

Book Overview

An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy.

In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively. But, Nicholas Agar warns in this provocative book, these developments could result in a radically disempowered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262038749
• ISBN13: 9780262038744
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"