- Overview
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This book answers the important questions surrounding the eventual replacement of human work by machines and technology.
- Book Intro
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Will my job survive the next ten years? Will a college degree be no longer necessary? Will I turn the steering wheel over to a self-driving car? What will I do if a robot becomes smarter than I am? AlphaGo's historic victory over Lee Sedol has left humanity with profound questions. What do we need to know in the age when human-created tools re-shuffle labor and knowledge and threaten humanity's place in the world?
Robotic Age, Humanity’s Work is essential reading for the AI era presented by a digital humanities scholar. Rather than proposing an enormous question about civilization, Koo Bonkwon, the author, asks specifically what type of reality humanity will face tomorrow. Koo offers a vivid map of the future, framed by ten small questions regarding self-driving cars, machine translation, education and occupation, labor and emotions, and others, for a macro perspective and practical guidance beyond the conventional fragmented approach to new technical information and emerging issues. This book will serve as an indicator to navigate the robotic age that is upon us.
- About the Author
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Koo Bonkwon
Koo Bonkwon is a digital humanities scholar of our time. After studying philosophy in Seoul National University, he earned doctor’s degree in Journalism at Hanyang University and was an adjunct professor at the Department of Mass Communication of the same university. He has been working as a journalist at Hankyoreh Newspaper since 1990 and is the Director of the Human and Digital Research Institute. As an IT journalist who have been covering lights and shades of digital technologies, he was the first person who introduced a discussion on ‘the right to be forgotten’ in Korea, translated related publications and released related thesis. He writes and lectures on how to build an healthy relations between technology and human. His works include Would You Share Yourself?, Can We Trust News?, Forget Memories About Me, etc.
- Selection
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Korea Press Foundation, 2015, Best Book
Ministry of National Defense, 2017, Jinjoong Books
Seoul Library, 2017, Book of This Year
Gumi City, 2017, Book of the Year
