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Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and Be Happy Kindle Edition

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You are about to become obsolete. You think you are special, unique, and that whatever it is that you are doing is impossible to replace. You are wrong. As we speak, millions of algorithms created by computer scientists are frantically running on servers all over the world, with one sole purpose: do whatever humans can do, but better.
That is the argument for a phenomenon called technological unemployment, one that is pervading modern society. But is that really the case? Or is it just a futuristic fantasy? What will become of us in the coming years, and what can we do to prevent a catastrophic collapse of society?
Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: how to survive the economic collapse and be happy explores the impact of technological advances on our lives, what it means to be happy, and provides suggestions on how to avoid a systemic collapse.

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Meeting Federico is letting sunshine in your life. His enthusiasm, curiosity, and passion for his interests and sharing experiences with others make it impossible not to like him [...] "Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK" is a smart, humorous, but thorough, and potentially important approach to a fundamental question of our time.
-- David Orban
CEO of dotSUB
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Understanding the complex relationship between automation and jobs requires empirical analysis and a nuanced inquiry. Federico Pistono's book "Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK" is a unique and fearless contribution to the ongoing conversation on this topic. Pistono approaches the issues with a perspective that reflects his love of both people and technology. The approach is relentlessly constructive, optimistic, and controversial. Read it, then agree or disagree with various points, but join the dialog!

-- Neil Jacobstein
Co-chair AI and Robotics, Singularity University
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Thanks for sharing this splendid piece of work. I have never taken drugs, but if I did, I expect that the ride would be like what I experienced in reading your book.

-- Vivek Wadhwa
Author, Columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Washington Post, The New York Times, and Science Magazine
---------------------------------------------Instead of an apocalyptic view of the future, Pistono is the rare prophet with a Panglossian view of the future [this] book is the refreshing exception: no, we are not doomed. That, per se, is a good reason to read it.

-- Piero Scaruffi, author and cultural historian, Stanford University

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Federico Pistono is an author, scientific educator, social activist, blogger, and aspiring filmmaker. He has written on science, technology, Internet communities, artificial intelligence, and climate change. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Verona, and completed the online course at Stanford on Machine Learning. In 2012 he graduated from Singularity University, NASA Ames Research Center, Silicon Valley, a special program whose aim to is solve humanity's grand challenges by leveraging exponentially growing technologies. He speaks regularly at TEDx events, schools, and symposia around the world. He's cofounder of the benefit corporation WiFli.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace; 2nd edition (January 14, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 14, 2014
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Federico Pistono is an entrepreneur, angel investor, researcher, author, science educator and public speaker. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Verona, and he's a graduate of Singularity University, NASA Ames Research Park.

He's Futurist and Technology Expert in the program "Codice: la vita è digitale" (Code: life is digital), which airs on Rai1, the major national TV channel in Italy; and Head of Blockchain at Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, the first supersonic travel on land in history.

At 31 years old, he became the youngest member of Italian Angels for Growth, the largest and most prestigious Angel Investors group in Italy.

He has co-founded four startups—two in Italy and two in the US—in the fields of e-learning, media production and distribution, wireless communication technology, and has consulted on technology and innovation for governments and Fortune 500 companies across the world, including Lufthansa and Google.

In 2012 he wrote the book "Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That's OK: How to Survive the Economic Collapse and be Happy", which became an international success, published in English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, and Chinese.

His work has also been cited and utilized by major economic institutions, universities, and think tanks, such as The Economist Intelligence Unit, the Italian Government, Google EU Public Policy and the European Commission.

Federico has more than a decade of professional experience in a variety of different fields—Education, Wireless Communication, New Media, IT Management, System Administration, Web Development, Product Management, UX design, Human Machine Interaction, Editing, Screenwriting, and Directing.

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Norvell Maples

Great Read... but...

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2013

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This was a very well written... and well researched book... this book is definitely a 'must read' in our day and age that pin points many of the problems that we face... it Hits the Nail on the Head in so many ways I can't hardly even begin to even list them... the Fact that many of the things we 'think' are yet future are already upon us... That a Robotic... Computerized labor system is already being implemented and has been (past tense) taking peoples jobs away for decades now... the fact that most people don't even recognize this fact in and of it's self is a profound problem as we spend our political and problem solving efforts on treating symptoms instead of hammering on the root causes... and that's just one of the issues that gets discussed in this book... I do have to admit that by the end of it... I would have liked to have read about some kind of proposal on the resolution of some of these problems... so even though I give this book 5 stars because again... I think this is a must read book for everyone in this day and age... I was disappointed to not have read more about solutions... (even if they were only ideas and not within the realm of current possibility) and not that there weren't a few things suggested... but I was just expecting more... but as an over all this was a great, thought provoking book....

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Bakari Chavanu

A book about where we are already headed

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2013

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Federico has written a much needed assessment of where jobs in the economy are already headed in the US and around the world. By now it should be clear that technology and automation will become the dominant means of production, and the transition will mean less and less people being employed. The question for us now is not how do we create more jobs, but more so how do we create a society in which less and less people need to work.

The first half of Federico's book describes well the issues of unemployment, exponential growth, information technology, and artificial intelligence. He clearly understands the problems and challenges of technological unemployment in a capitalist society. One of the most salient points he makes in his book is, "Today, most of the economy is a ghost economy a financial transactions, profit-maximization schemes and computer operations, with little regard to consequences... Today, a small group of the hundred and 47 mega transitional corporations form a giant bow tie structure, and economic super-entity that controls 40% of the entire world."

Technology and automation, using scientific research and planning, could ultimately alleviate worldwide poverty, lead to universal education, medical care, and an overall better way of life for us all. But technological unemployment means that people will not have the jobs they need in order to buy the goods and services that so-called free market, capitalist system relies upon.

In the second half of his book, Federico proposes ways to "survive the economic collapse", but his suggestions are primarily based on learning how to do more with less. He advocates for self-education, eating more healthy, learning to grow your own food, and conserving energy in your home. This is all good advice, but I think there needs to be more discussion about systemic and structural changes within the capitalist economic structure.

There is no point in people working jobs in which technology and automation can perform the same tasks more efficiently. Far too many of us perform jobs in which we carry out mundane tasks only so we can make a paycheck to pay bills. This is not the best use of human labor and intelligence. There are far more better things we can do with our time, creativity, and intelligence.

"Robots Will Steal Your Job" is an important contribution to a growing body of books ("Abundance", "The End of Work", "Lights in the Tunnel", and "Race against the Machine") on this topic.

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arctic poppy

In search of a good copy editor

Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2012

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While I enjoyed and appreciated what the author has put down for us, I do wish he had had a good, possibly human copy editor. There are far too many spell check errors that stop the reader dead in his or her tracks. That, coupled with some very outdated copy rules such as never using a contraction, make the book seem conflicted. After all, what person, let alone the author says " does not it?" rather than doesn't it? Perhaps Jane Austen would say "does it not?" but I seriously doubt that anyone under the age of 60 would. Letting good information go out into the world with poor editing is my only gripe.

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Stefan Kengen

Don't be scared. Robots are nice.

Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2014

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Mr. Pistono presents a valid and well thought out case for a positive transition towards a more sustainable lifestyle, not just for a select group, but for all the world's people. He does so in an entertaining, humorous, compelling, and easy to grasp manner, that will have you turning the pages at high speed. Despite his being well read, highly educated, and somewhat of a globetrotter, Mr. Pistono keeps his presentation accessible and interesting to everyone, even if his source material is geeky, to say the least. In other words, you don't have to be an expert in any field to get his points, but you will be a step closer to being one in quite a few, when you have turned the last page.

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Grétar Hannesson

Misleading title and synopsis - Not worth your time or money

Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2016

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Going by the title and the synopsis, I thought this was going to be a book about how automation is going to continue on its exponential path, the social changes that are going to happen as a result, and how to weather them. Not so.

While it does tackle current trends in automation, and the concept of technological unemployment, it doesn't project much into the future and doesn't even start to speculate about social changes. It does however tell you how to be less dependent on energy and money in a way that's only tenuously related to the supposed main theme. I guess these things help after an economic collapse, but he goes straight from widespread unemployment to that, without even speculating about how it would take place.

The lack of an editor is quite apparent. The structure of the book is all over the place and never feels like it's developing on a central theme. Federico Pistono must have thought he could pull this off without any professional assistance, but was sadly mistaken.
He would probably chalk it down to eclectic interests, but good writers can tie together any collection of information under a common theme. It's not the diversity I have a problem with, but the lack of connections between the different parts.

Page-by-page the lack of an editor is quite apparent too. Frequent misspellings of the type a spellchecker won't catch, poor section and paragraph structure and bad formatting that leads to half the apostrophes in the book showing up as question marks, all combine to make this book rather annoying to read.

I should also mention the smugness that drips from every page. The author knows all things better than you do, and is giddy at the chance of educating you. Most paragraphs could end with ", you idiot." and it wouldn't change the tone of the book at all.
I'm convinced that if he were to see this review he'd decide that I "didn't get it" and fail to improve on anything for his next book.

There's no redeeming value here. The only part I found interesting was about current trends in automation. But I'm sure there's better books on that subject specifically. If someone knows a good book on the social changes likely to happen as a result of exponential automation and technological unemployment, I'm still looking.

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such an inspiring book. thanks

Reviewed in Australia on January 26, 2020

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This book is inpiring specially to those who would think life is too much to dream about. yet we can make it happen still

Kindle-klant

obligatory for ministers of education AND parents of adolescents

Reviewed in France on November 6, 2016

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Considering the time when the author wrote the book, he was quite prescient. Why is this book not read by politicians in all countries. More specificly, the ministers responsible for education.

Dan HD

Oustanding work

Reviewed in Mexico on September 3, 2016

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One of the most spectacular books that I've ever read, highly recommended. The future looks exciting and the machines are important part of the development.

Derlis

Great

Reviewed in Spain on September 21, 2016

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Great book. Civil right movement next step with censorship of corporation propaganda and free education based on scientific efficiency and sustainable environment

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