Martin Ford

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Martin Ford

Martin R. Ford is an American non-fiction author.

Life

Martin Ford studied computer science at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor and business administration at the University of California, Los Angeles . Since then he has worked in the computer industry and founded a software development company in Silicon Valley . According to his own information, he has 25 years of experience in computer design and software development .

Ford has contributed to Fortune , Forbes , The Atlantic , The Washington Post , Project Syndicate , The Huffington Post, and The Fiscal Times . In 2009 Ford wrote a book about future technological developments and their impact on society. This book was based primarily on my own deliberations. In 2015, he responded to the critics with another book, this time based on socio-economic statistical data.

theses

The aim of the current technological revolution is not to make workers more efficient, but to replace them completely. The current technological revolution does not encompass a single economic sector, as was the case with the agrarian and industrial revolutions , but simultaneously and equally all professional activities and also the liberal professions of the traditional middle class. New professions such as computer specialists and software developers are also already showing high displacement rates and unemployment in the USA. The decline in the number of financial analysts employed in New York from 150,000 in 2000 to 100,000 in 2014 is the decline in automation. The median income of graduates in the US stopped rising between 2000 and 2014, but decreased from $ 52,000 to $ 46,000, while that of academics has stagnated.

Ford sees a basic income as a possible political measure to cushion the social impact .

criticism

Ford's second book received favorable reviews in the Financial Times and the New York Times . In Reason magazine , Robin Hanson criticized Ford's statistical foundations, for example, on the development of the labor market, and accused him of interest-driven glass balls .

Fonts

  • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future . New York: Basic Books, 2015
  • The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future . Acculant Publishing, 2009

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Martin Ford (English) - via the Econfuture blog (on WordPress )
  2. ^ How to Survive a Robot Uprising. Seeing dark omens of catastrophe in new tech demos - Robin Hanson for Reason , April 2015
personal data
SURNAME Ford, Martin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ford, Martin R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century