Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee Books
Erik Brynjolfsson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT and co-director of the same initiative.
Known for: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Books by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
In this influential work, MIT scholars Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee explore how digital technologies are reshaping economies, societies, and the nature of work. They argue that we are entering a 'second machine age' driven by exponential advances in computing, automation, and artificial intelligence, which will bring both unprecedented prosperity and significant challenges for labor and inequality.
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Exponential Growth and the Dawn of the Second Machine Age
When we speak of the second machine age, we are not speaking in metaphors. We truly are in a new epoch of technological progress, one driven not by the engines of steam but by the engines of computation. The hallmark of this transformation is exponential growth: a doubling pattern of improvement tha...
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Technological Breakthroughs and the Amplification of Human Capability
At the core of today’s transformation are remarkable advances in artificial intelligence, robotics, and networked computing—technologies that extend not only what machines can do but what humans can achieve. When we observed IBM’s Watson defeating champions at Jeopardy! or Google’s autonomous vehicl...
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About Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
Erik Brynjolfsson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT and co-director of the same initiative. Both are leading voices in the study of technology’s impact on business and soc...
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Erik Brynjolfsson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT and co-director of the same initiative. Both are leading voices in the study of technology’s impact on business and soc...
Erik Brynjolfsson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT and co-director of the same initiative. Both are leading voices in the study of technology’s impact on business and society.
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Erik Brynjolfsson is a professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT and co-director of the same initiative.
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