The Robot and Automation Almanac - 2019: The Futurist Institute

by Jason Schenker

The Robot and Automation Almanac is a collection of essays from leading robot and automation experts, executives, and investors. Each of the essays focuses on the "one big thing" that each author sees in the year an opportunity, a risk, a challenge, investment themes, an overlooked trend, a perception shift, a step change, or a trend change. The robot, automation, and AI thought leaders that contributed to this book include Samuel Alexandersson, Djamila Amimer, Fred van Beuningen, Keith Blanchet, Jeff Burnstein, Lorenzo Carver, Brian La Cour, Craig Fuller, Jason Gouw, Rob Handfield, Robert Huschka, Maciej Lisiecki, Jayesh Mehta, Russell Nickerson, David Schwebel, Daniel Stanton, Kaleb Steinhauer, Daniel Theobald, Michael Walton, and Bruce Welty. The editor, Jason Schenker, also contributed to the book.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction

182 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2018

Reviews

[Thegazzardian · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mixed Bag

Read this as a software developer in mobile curious about other technological spaces. It was an illuminating read and I learned a lot, but as a collection of essays, some were really good (I particularly enjoyed the one on smart cities), some were entirely skippable. Worth the time, though, I would say.

[Seb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent

It was quite interesting in places but seemed very much like I was reading the same thing over and over.