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“All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines,”

Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future

I personally believe when it comes to any creative asset or work automation, the demand is elastic. The more that we make, the more people consume. We’re very much looking forward to a massive expansion in productivity, a lot of new jobs, a lot of new things, just like we saw with the microchip and the internet.

—Martin Casado, a16z

Sarah Wang • What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI | Andreessen Horowitz

transaction cost economics; there’s too much rich and excellent work. Instead,

Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

This engine has created a world economy worth $85 trillion—and counting. From the pioneers of the Industrial Revolution to the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs of today, technology has a magnetic incentive in the form of serious financial rewards. The coming wave represents the greatest economic prize in history. It is a consumer cornucopia and potenti

Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

In the market of ideas and technology, the top performers are at least 10x more valuable than the average performers—making hiring of utmost importance

Tyler Cowen • Modern Wisdom: #482 - Tyler Cowen - The Secret To Finding Great Talent

As we came to more realistic views of what that new technology could accomplish for us, our research productivity began to improve again in the 1990s. We wandered up fewer blind alleys; computers began to improve our everyday lives and help our economy.

Nate Silver • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

computer scientists have learned to engineer increasingly sophisticated electronic algorithms.

Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus

Many productivity companies with the primary goal of making things faster will eventually need to show some sort of cost saving as well.

Ali Tamaseb • Super Founders: What Data Reveals About Billion-Dollar Startups

The distinguished Columbia University economist Jagdish Bhagwati argues that computerization is the main cause behind the two-decades-long stagnation of middle-class wages.