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

Erik Brynjolfsson; Andrew McAfee

ISBN 10: 0393350649 / ISBN 13: 9780393350647

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0393350649
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780393350647
• Reliure: Softcover
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Dust Jacket
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Synopsis

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 alters how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

À propos de l?auteur

Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and one of the most cited scholars in information systems and economics. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Digital Business and the author of Enterprise 2.0.