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Automation Apocalypse: How America Survives When Everyone's Job Gets Automated

Think your job is safe from robots? Think again! In this hilarious (and slightly terrifying) roadmap to our automated future, the author explains why we're all about to become as useful as a screen door on a submarine - and offers a solution wilder than that time his Uncle Pete tried to start a premium artisanal air business. With a plan that somehow turns government bureaucracy into humanity's last hope (yes, really) and enough robot jokes to make an AI laugh-cry in binary, "The Automation Apocalypse" shows how we might just survive the robot revolution by letting the government automate everything from laundry detergent to luxury robot butlers. Warning: Reading this book may cause uncontrollable laughter, existential dread, and the sudden urge to be nicer to your refrigerator. That weird noise it's making? Yeah, it's probably plotting something.Read more

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