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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
Assuming that everyone has equal access to the technology, you get what I call Syndrome Syndrome. Syndrome was the villain in Pixar’s 2004 movie The Incredibles whosesignature line was: “If everyone’s super, nobody is.” Syndrome Syndrome is what happens when everyone has access to the same technology at the same time. If everyone has an AI agent,... See more
The One-person Billion-dollar Company
One of our favorite quotes of his is, “I keep saying that the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. And I’m not kidding.”21 When we look at the amount of digital data being created and think about how much more insight there is to be gained, we’re pretty sure he’s not wrong, either.
Andrew McAfee • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Brynjolfsson, Erik, et al. (2019), GDP-B. Accounting for the Value of New and Free Goods in the Digital Economy, UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Peter Hein van Mulligen • Met ons gaat het nog altijd goed (Dutch Edition)
In a world transformed by the widespread use of networked technologies, humanity faces a significant divide between those who can access and use new technologies and those who cannot, counterbalancing the considerable opportunities that are being created in new economic sectors.