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100 _aDas, Mitra.
245 0 _aTechnology values and society: social forces in technological change
260 _aNew York
260 _bPeter Lang
260 _c2005
300 _a171p.
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520 _aNearly half of all working Americans could risk losing their jobs because of technology. It?s not only blue-collar jobs at stake. Millions of educated knowledge workers?writers, paralegals, assistants, medical technicians?are threatened by accelerating advances in artificial intelligence. The industrial revolution shifted workers from farms to factories. In the first era of automation, machines relieved humans of manually exhausting work. Today, Era Two of automation continues to wash across the entire services-based economy that has replaced jobs in agriculture and manufacturing. Era Three and the rise of AI, is dawning. Smart computers are demonstrating they are capable of making better decisions than humans. Brilliant technologies can now decide, learn, predict and even comprehend much faster and more accurately than the human brain and their progress is accelerating. Where will this leave lawyers, nurses, teachers and editors?
650 _aTechnology-Social aspects
700 _aKolack, Shirley.
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