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Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
Technology Means Complementarity
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
In this new economy, three groups will have a particular advantage: those who can work well and creatively with intelligent machines, those who are the best at what they do, and those with access to capital.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Technology has a clear, inevitable trajectory: mass diffusion in great roiling waves. This is true from the earliest flint and bone tools to the latest AI models.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
This intellectual work became as important, and often as arduous, as the physical labor of manufacturing products and delivering services.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
EVER-SMARTER COMPUTERS: FRIEND OR FOE?
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
We marvel at artificial intelligence, laud productivity, and measure everything,
Brad Stulberg • The Practice of Groundedness
Watson, Deep Blue, and ever-better machine learning algorithms are cool. But the most valuable companies in the future won’t ask what problems can be solved with computers alone. Instead, they’ll ask: how can computers help humans solve hard problems?
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
I call technological progress, capitalism, responsive government, and public awareness the “four horsemen of the optimist.”