Main entry:

Brynjolfsson, Erik, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First Norton paperback [edition].

Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2016.
©2014

Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- 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").

Summary:

Crystallized the debate over the pace of technological change and its effect on the economy, vaulting onto best-seller lists with its whip-smart explanation of the forces behind everything from Jeopardy!-champion computers to self-driving cars.

ISBN:

9780393350647 (pbk.)
0393350649 (pbk.)

Subject:

Information technology Economic aspects.
Economic development Technological innovations.
Progress Social aspects.
Social stratification.
Technologie de l'information Aspect économique.
Développement économique Innovations.
Progrès Aspect social.
Stratification sociale.
social stratification.
Computer
Digitale Revolution
Digitalisierung
Industrielle Revolution
Informationsgesellschaft
Informationstechnik
Prognose
Wirtschaftsentwicklung
Wohlstand

Added entries:

McAfee, Andrew, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291954
Call No.: BIB 235850
Status: Available