{"id":88197,"date":"2019-02-27T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/are-robots-competing-for-your-job"},"modified":"2019-02-27T01:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T09:02:25","slug":"are-robots-competing-for-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/are-robots-competing-for-your-job","title":{"rendered":"Are Robots Competing for Your Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-robots-competing-for-your-job2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This thesis has been rolling around like a marble in the bowl of a lot of people\u2019s brains for a while now, and many of those marbles were handed out by Martin Ford, in his 2015 book, \u201cRise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future.\u201d In the book, and in an essay in \u201cConfronting Dystopia: The New Technological Revolution and the Future of Work\u201d (Cornell), Ford acknowledges that all other earlier robot-invasion panics were unfounded. In the nineteenth century, people who worked on farms lost their jobs when agricultural processes were mechanized, but they eventually earned more money working in factories. In the twentieth century, automation of industrial production led to warnings about \u201cunprecedented economic and social disorder.\u201d Instead, displaced factory workers moved into service jobs. Machines eliminate jobs; rising productivity creates new jobs.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Probably, but don\u2019t count yourself out.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/03\/04\/are-robots-competing-for-your-job\">https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2019\/03\/04\/are-robots-competing-for-your-job<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thesis has been rolling around like a marble in the bowl of a lot of people\u2019s brains for a while now, and many of those marbles were handed out by Martin Ford, in his 2015 book, \u201cRise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future.\u201d In the book, and in an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1878,1506,6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-employment","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}