In recent years, Google s autonomous cars have logged thousands of
miles on American highways and IBM s Watson trounced the best human
Jeopardy players. Digital technologies with hardware, software, and
networks at their core will in the near future diagnose diseases
more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to
transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered
uniquely human.
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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