I think most readers will not find this economics part much of a problem but as someone who studied economics for many years and worked in the financial industry and technology sector, there is deeply wrong conclusion the author makes: The industries that introduce the most automation and replace the most jobs are the same industries that improve productively the most (since labor is almost invariably the most expensive part of any process).

I naively thought this book would be more about the details of new technology and what jobs will be replaced but at least 50% is about the economics of robotics and frankly, the author gets this wrong. What disappointed you about Rise of the Robots? Unless we begin to radically reassess the fundamentals of how our economy works, we could have both an enormous population of the unemployed-the truck drivers, warehouse workers, cooks, lawyers, doctors, teachers, programmers, and many, many more, whose labors have been rendered superfluous by automated and intelligent machines. The effects of this transition could be shattering. Increasingly, machines will be able to take care of themselves, and fewer jobs will be necessary. In Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford argues that is absolutely not the case. The more Pollyannaish, or just simply uninformed, might imagine that this industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are eliminated, more will be created to deal with the new devices of a new era.

But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees to achieve enormous valuations, but what will be the fate of those of us not lucky or smart enough to have gotten into the great shift from human labor to computation? No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. In Silicon Valley the phrase 'disruptive technology' is tossed around on a casual basis. And that, no doubt, will only be the beginning. A computer winning Jeopardy might seem like a trivial, if impressive, feat, but the same technology is making paralegals redundant as it undertakes electronic discovery, and is soon to do the same for radiologists.

Though all these nifty devices and programs might make our lives easier, they're also well on their way to making 'good' jobs obsolete. In a world of self-driving cars and big data, smart algorithms and Siri, we know that artificial intelligence is getting smarter every day.

Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford