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Martin Ford, Author of Rise of the Robots, Is Here to Answer Questions

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As robots in the workforce proliferate, will our automated future lead to a glorious age of leisure or a new class of unemployed humans? Is your job safe?

Martin Ford’s new book Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future helps us imagine the post-robotic revolution future—but good and bad—from the jobs eliminated by the automated cars ecosystem, to intelligent bots taking over white collar jobs.

https://gizmodo.com/the-rise-of-automated-cars-will-thousands-of-jobs-and-n-1702689348

Martin will be joining us here today from 1-2pm EST to answer all your questions about the rise of the robots. Fire away in the comments below!

Top image: 1968 illustration by Ron Cobb, scanned from the 1976 book The Compleat Computer

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