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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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Second Machine Age, written by the MIT economists Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee.
Tim Leberecht • The Business Romantic
The Anthropic Economic Index
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Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power—the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments—what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.
Andrew McAfee • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
This shift has ushered in what Every’s Dan Shipper calls an allocation economy, where the value of work increasingly hinges not on traditional labor but on how we allocate scarce resources—time, attention, and focus. In this new paradigm, the question becomes less about what AI can do and more about how we choose to use it, what we allow it to... See more