Brynjolfsson, Erik

The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies / Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee - New York : W. W. Norton & Company, c2014 - xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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") -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

A New York Times Bestseller. A "fascinating" (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

HC 79.I55 .B79 2014