The Technology Trap, by Carl Benedikt Frey

The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation (2019)

Zooms in on the disruptive effects of technology on labor: who wins, who loses, and how labor disruption also destabilizes a social order. It supplies the economic engine of the partial revolution, in which the gains arrive long before the adjustment and the interval between them is where politics turns dangerous.

Read it asking: To what extent can we draw analogies to previous technological revolutions? Is AI a ‘normal’ revolutionary technology?