The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant TechnologiesA New York Times Bestseller In The Second Machine Age MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kinds—from lawyers to truck drivers—will be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar. Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape. A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age will alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress. |
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User Review - DLMorrese - LibraryThingHow has technology affected human culture and economics? How will the rapid progress of digital technology do so in the future? These are the questions this book attempts to answer, albeit not in any ... Read full review
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User Review - nmarun - LibraryThingThe purpose of the book is to talk about how machines are and will change our lifestyle in the coming years. With Internet of Things being on the rise, I do see things change very drastically (in a ... Read full review
Contents
Chapter | 1 |
STARS AND SUPERSTARS | 147 |
IMPLICATIONS OF THE BOUNTY AND THE SPREAD | 163 |
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS | 187 |
POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS | 205 |
LONGTERM RECOMMENDATIONS | 229 |
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of ... Erik Brynjolfsson,Andrew McAfee No preview available - 2016 |