"The Age of Algorithms"
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2026
Series: Book 1 of 7 - AI Insights
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- Title
- "The Age of Algorithms"
- Author
- Rogger, Patt
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PAP
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798244245424
- Item weight
- 608 grams
- Series
- Book 1 of 7: AI Insights
The Age of the Algorithm is a popular and analytical essay that addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: labor policies, unemployment, and universal income in an AI-driven economy. Because as automation accelerates, the real question is not just “which jobs will disappear,” but what happens to social cohesion when work ceases to be the main channel of income, identity, and belonging.
This book does not offer slogans or easy apocalypses. It offers a map. A clear and reasoned path that helps us understand what is happening, why it is happening, and what political choices—concrete, not theoretical—could determine a more equitable or more fragile future.
What you will find in this essay:
- How AI is transforming work: not only by replacing tasks, but by reorganizing processes, bargaining power, and value criteria.
- Technological unemployment and new professions: between promises of “reskilling” and real risks of stable marginalization.
- Polarization and inequality: why the benefits of automation tend to be concentrated and which social groups are likely to pay the highest price.
- Algorithmic precariousness and “invisible” work: the role of platforms, digital control, automated evaluation mechanisms.
- Welfare, training, and active policies: what really works, what is rhetoric, what needs to be rethought.
- Universal Basic Income (UBI): arguments for and against, possible models, critical issues, side effects, and realistic scenarios.
- A key risk: a technically efficient but socially fragile future—rich in data and poor in connections, quick in decisions and slow in justice.
- Those who want to understand clearly how AI is reshaping work and the economy.
- Students, workers, teachers, and professionals who feel the need for interpretive tools, not slogans.
- Those interested in public policy, welfare, inequality, the future of work, and social transformation.
- Curious readers looking for an accessible essay with a critical approach and a broad vision.
Because change is not “coming”: it is already here. And the more the algorithm becomes the invisible infrastructure of our lives, the more a crucial question arises: who governs this transformation? Institutions, citizens, politics — or only the economic logic of those who control data, platforms, and models?
The Age of the Algorithm is an invitation to look at artificial intelligence without naive enthusiasm or paralyzing fear. To recognize that technology is not neutral: it is a choice of values embedded in systems, incentives, and rules.
In the end, the point is not whether AI will change work. It already is.
The point is whether we will be citizens in the age of the algorithm — or mere users.
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