The Second Machine Age - Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Informationen zum Autor Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School. He is the author of several best-selling books with co-author Andrew McAfee, and one of the world’s most cited scholars in information systems and economics. Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of the best-selling The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future . He and co-author Erik Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers 50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics. Klappentext In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated and employment levels have fallen. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of the economy and chart a path towards future prosperity. Businesses and individuals, they argue, must learn to race with machines. Drawing on years of research, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies and policies for doing so. A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age will radically alter how we think about issues of technological, societal and economic progress. Zusammenfassung A New York Times Bestseller. A “fascinating” (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.

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• Authors: Eri Brynjolfsson, Erik Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee Brynjolfsson, Brynjolfsson Erik, Andrew McAfee, McAfee Andrew
• Publisher: Norton and Co Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9780393350647
• ISBN: 978-0-393-35064-7
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Popular economics, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Ethical & social aspects of IT, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects