ESCP Europe

"In recent years, computers have learned to diagnose diseases, drive cars, write clean prose and win game shows. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty but in their wake median income has stagnated and employment levels have fallen. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal the technological forces driving this reinvention of the economy and chart a path towards future prosperity. Businesses and individuals, they argue, must learn to race with machines. Drawing on years of research, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies and policies for doing so. A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age will radically alter how we think about issues of technological, societal and economic progress. " - from publisher.

Introduction --- Chapter 1. Big stories --- Chapter 2. The skills of new machines: technology races ahead --- Chapter 3. Moores law and the second half of the chessboard --- Chapter 4. The digitization of just about everything --- Chapter 5. Innovation: combining or recombining --- Chapter 6. Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age --- Chapter 7. Computing bounty --- Chapter 8. Beyond GDP --- Chapter 9. The spread --- Chapter 10. The biggest winners: stars and superstars --- Chapter 11. Implications of the bounty and spread --- Chapter 12. Learning to race with machines: recommendations for individuals --- Chapter 13. Policy recommendations --- Chapter 14. Long-term recommendations --- Chapter 15. Technology and the future (which is very different from "Technology is the future") --- Notes --- Illustration sources..