The Second Machine Age
Erik Brynjolfsson is the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy's director and the Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at MIT Sloan. He is the co-author of numerous best-selling books with Andrew McAfee and one of the world's most referenced information systems and economics scholars.
Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the co-author of The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future, both of which have sold well. He and co-author Erik Brynjolfsson are the only people recognized to the Thinkers 50 list of the world's top management thinkers as well as the Politico 50 list of those transforming American politics.
Google's self-driving cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways in recent years, and IBM's Watson has beaten the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies based on hardware, software, and networks will soon be able to diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors, alter commerce, and perform many tasks that were previously thought to be distinctively human.
Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT and Andrew McAfee, two leading experts in their fields, uncover the factors driving the reinvention of our lives and economies in The Second Machine Age. As the entire influence of digital technologies becomes apparent, we will reap enormous benefits in the form of brilliant personal technology, enhanced infrastructure, and near-limitless access to cultural objects that enrich our lives.
This windfall will be accompanied with agonizing change. Professions ranging from lawyers to truck drivers will be irrevocably altered. Companies will have to evolve or perish. Recent economic indices reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are declining, despite rising productivity and profits.
Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best survival methods and provide a new road to riches based on years of research and current trends. These include redesigning schooling to prepare people for the next economy rather than the previous one, developing new collaborations that combine brute processing capacity with human inventiveness, and accepting policies that make sense in a drastically altered context.
The Second Machine Age, a fundamentally optimistic book, modifies how we conceive about technical, sociological, and economic advancement.
Author: Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393350649/
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