The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies / Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee.

Author
Brynjolfsson, Erik [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
  • ©2014
Description
306 pages ; 25 cm

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          Summary note
          A pair of technology experts describe how humans will have to keep pace with machines in order to become prosperous in the future and identify strategies and policies for business and individuals to use to combine digital processing power with human ingenuity.
          Bibliographic references
          Includes bibliographical references and index.
          Contents
          • The big stories
          • The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead
          • Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard
          • The digitization of just about everything
          • Innovation: declining or recombining?
          • Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age
          • Computing bounty
          • Beyond GDP
          • The spread
          • The biggest winners : stars and superstars
          • Implications of the bounty and the spread
          • Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals
          • Policy recommendations
          • Long-term recommendations
          • Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").
          ISBN
          • 9780393239355 ((hardcover))
          • 0393239357 ((hardcover))
          • 9780393350647 ((paperback))
          • 0393350649 ((paperback))
          LCCN
          2013041204
          OCLC
          867423744
          Other standard number
          • 10748104
          • 40023286457
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