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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
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
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Silicon Valley is obsessed with billion-dollar businesses. We are constantly hyping our unicorns-there are now more than 200 of them. As a result, it is easy to forget that 99.9% of US businesses are, in fact, very small. The US alone has more than 20 million XSMBs (extra small businesse... See more
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