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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies Audiobook
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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.
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. 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.
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About the Authors
Andrew McAfee coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a 2006 Sloan Management Review article. McAfee has authored more than fifty case studies and articles in the Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, the Washington Post, and Financial Times. He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences and has taught in executive education programs around the world. McAfee is currently a principle research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management; he was previously a professor at Harvard Business School. He received his doctorate from Harvard Business School and earned degrees from MIT.
Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and one of the most cited scholars in information systems and economics.
About Jonathan Todd Ross
Jonathan Todd Ross is a writer and an Earphones and Audie Award–winning voice actor. He has lent his voice to numerous anime television shows, including Yu-Gi-Oh! and Sonic X.