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The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies / Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0393239357
  • 9780393239355
Other title:
  • 2nd machine age
  • Work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.483 23
LOC classification:
  • HC79.I55 B796 2014
Contents:
1. The big stories -- 2. The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- 3. Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- 4. The digitization of just about everything -- 5. Innovation : declining or recombining? -- 6. Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- 7. Computing bounty -- 8. Beyond GDP -- 9. The spread -- 10. The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- 11. Implications of the bounty and the spread -- 12. Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- 13. Policy recommendations -- 14. Long-term recommendations -- 15. Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
Summary: "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."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The big stories -- 2. The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- 3. Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- 4. The digitization of just about everything -- 5. Innovation : declining or recombining? -- 6. Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- 7. Computing bounty -- 8. Beyond GDP -- 9. The spread -- 10. The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- 11. Implications of the bounty and the spread -- 12. Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- 13. Policy recommendations -- 14. Long-term recommendations -- 15. Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").

"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."--Publisher's website.

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