The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Erik Brynjolfsson; Andrew McAfee

ISBN 10: 0393350649 / ISBN 13: 9780393350647

Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014

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Very Good condition, no DJ. First edition, first printing. No markings to the text block. No marks of personal identification or prior ownership.; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 46346

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0393350649
• ISBN-13: 9780393350647
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: First Edition.
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket
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Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kinds from lawyers to truck drivers will be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar. Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape. A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age alters how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School. He is the author of several best-selling books with co-author Andrew McAfee, and one of the world’s most cited scholars in information systems and economics.

Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of the best-selling The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. He and co-author Erik Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers 50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.