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24 alternatives to Rise of the Robots

Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Rise of the Robots launched in 2015; 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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Rise of the Robots▲12
Technology and the threat of a jobless future
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Rise of the Robots▲1
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 →
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Rex▲57
The brain for robots
2014 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Future Timeline▲115
Predicts advancements in science and technology
2015 · futuretimeline.net · its alternatives →
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The Documentary - What Should We Teach Our Kids?▲69
Robots gobbling up ever more human jobs
2016 · bbc.co.uk · its alternatives →
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The Industries of the Future▲60
Exploring the tech and economic trends of next 10 years
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future ▲61
An optimistic road map for the future
2016 · amazon.com · 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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The Inevitable▲87
The 12 tech forces that will shape our future by Kevin Kelly
2017 · penguinrandomhouse.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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Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex▲67
How technology is shaping the future of human labor
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream▲66
How to predict the future of technology.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Ozobot▲78
The World's Smallest Smart Robot
2015 · ozobot.com · its alternatives →
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Becoming Steve Jobs▲116
The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Economist: The Future of Computing▲76
On artificial intelligence, Go and Moore's Law
2016 · soundcloud.com · its alternatives →
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Trekonomics ▲76
The economics of Star Trek
2015 · inkshares.com · its alternatives →
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Technotopia▲96
A book about how the future is going to be pretty awesome.
2015 · publishizer.com · its alternatives →
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Robot Overlordz - 224: Conscientious Futures▲66
Self-publishing, corporate sovereignty, and the future of AI
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Specularity - The Future of Work▲56
UX, automation, the death of the career track, and much more
2015 · specularity.libsyn.com · its alternatives →
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Feedial▲63
A next-generation news reader
2015 · feedial.com · its alternatives →
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Momentum Machines▲69
Gourmet Hamburger-making Robots: The Next Gen of Fast Food
2014 · ttoto99.com · its alternatives →
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IoUT▲74
The Internet of Useless Things
2015 · internetofuselessthings.io · its alternatives →

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