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24 alternatives to Raising the Floor

What happens when machines take half our jobs?

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Raising the Floor launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Rise of the Robots▲67

   Technology and the threat of a jobless future

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   Humans Need Not Apply▲56

   A new book on the future of work in the age of robots

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   The End of Jobs▲98

   Money, meaning and freedom without the 9-to-5

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The Second Machine Age▲66

   Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant techno

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   a16z Podcast: Automation, Jobs, & the Future of Work (and Income)▲75

   Automation is taking over more and more aspects of work

   2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →

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   Rise of the Robots▲12

   Technology and the threat of a jobless future

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism▲67

   A 360 degree look on the topic of Future of Work.

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   The Machine That Changed The World▲69

   The story of lean production

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   What to Think About Machines That Think: ▲74

   Today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Soul of A New Machine▲62

    Inside look at the computer industry transition

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    End of Jobs▲71

    Money Meaning and Freedom without the 9-5

    2015 · taylorpearson.me · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Humans Need Not Apply▲108

    Wealth & work in the age of artificial intelligence

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies▲71

    What happens when machines surpass humans in intelligence?

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Makers: The New Industrial Revolution▲72

    The front lines of a new industrial revolution

    2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    Pressed for Time: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism▲56

    How machines effect humans in our hyperconnected world

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Scaling Up▲71

    How a few companies make it...and why the rest don't

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Misfit Economy▲81

    Innovation on the fringe...

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    People Over Profit ▲65

    Break the system, live with purpose, be more successful

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    The Future of Work: My Co-Worker Is A Bot▲54

    Robotic process & automation will transform the workplace

    2016 · futureofworkpodcast.libsyn.com · its alternatives →

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    The Great Workplace▲75

    How to Build It, How to Keep It, and Why It Matters

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    Collapse▲68

    How societies choose to fail and succeed

    2015 · amazon.ca · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Not Our Job▲60

    How college has destroyed a generation of workers

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    A Systems Doing Approach To Disruption▲58

    Use systems 'doing' to disrupt industries

    2016 · asha-labs.com · its alternatives →

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    Rise of the Machines▲61

    A Cybernetic History 1st Edition

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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