Against automation mythologies : business science fiction and the ruse of the robots /: business science fiction and the ruse of the robots. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: J. Jesse Ramirez.
• Authors: Ramirez, J. Jesse
• Contents: Part I. Business Science Fiction 1. Future Expectations 2. "Harbingers of the Robot Age" 3. The Terminator, or, The Automation Fetish Part II. Original Automation 4. When Farmers Lost Their "Jobs" 5. Techno-republicanism Part III. Disenchanted Objects 6. The Misadventures of Baxter and Sawyer 7. Amazon, or, Automated Taylorism 8. Uber is a Science Fiction 9. The Smart Home: Still More Work for Mother 10. Care Robots 11. Watson, Champion of White Jeopardy!
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 670.427; Automation; Automation -- Social aspects; Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on; Robots, Industrial
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000169614; 9781000169539; 9781000169577; 9781003056089
• Related ISBNs: 9780367520144
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