The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Author | : Erik Brynjolfsson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2014-01-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780393239355 |
ISBN-13 | : 0393239357 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").