Audio: Will We 'Droid Our Economy To Death?

Are advancing technology, job automation, outsourcing and globalization leading us into an economic implosion? 

Martin Ford argues that without reform, technological unemployment across all job types will collapse demand in global mass consumer markets - triggering self-feeding cycles of yet more job losses. 



Listen [mp3]: Martin Ford with Fintan Dunne
Discussion Here >

Martin Ford is the founder of a Silicon Valley-based software development firm, with over 25 years experience in the fields of computer design and software development. He has written for The Atlantic, Slate, The Huffington Post and has contributed to NPR. "The Lights in the Tunnel" shows how accelerating technology is likely to have a highly disruptive influence on our economy in the near future--and may well already be a significant factor in the current global crisis.

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