The human, the robot, the labor

They work faster and more efficiently than we do. They do it for free. In doing so, they will make at least half of our jobs, from accountants to journalists, redundant. They will leave millions of people orphaned and bereft. Their name? The robots and the algorithms. They are the troops of the Digital Revolution. It will change our society as radically as no other development since the Industrial Revolution. Oh yeah? And a disaster? Not necessarily, Gilbert De Swert notes. Because in any healthy economic system, automation would be good news. No longer being stuck in boring, repetitive and often humiliating work for an entire adult life: sounds fantastic, doesn't it? The condition is that we thoroughly rethink our way of working and living.

A book about robotization and digitalization, about Google and the real Tesla. About less work and working less, and about solutions that are actually too radical to be suggested by anyone other than a Silicon Valley entrepreneur.