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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies is a 2014 book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee that is a continuation of their book Race Against the Machine. They argue that the Second Machine Age involves the automation of a lot of cognitive tasks that make humans and software-driven machines ...
Banham predicted a "second age" of the machine and mass consumption. The Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment (1969) follows Giedion's Mechanization Takes Command (1948), putting the development of technologies such as electricity and air conditioning ahead of the classic account of structures.
The Machine Age [1] [2] [3] is an era that includes the early-to-mid 20th century, sometimes also including the late 19th century. An approximate dating would be about 1880 to 1945. An approximate dating would be about 1880 to 1945.
The work was done by hand in workers' homes or occasionally in master weavers' shops. Wages in Lancashire were about six times those in India in 1770 when overall productivity in Britain was about three times higher than in India. [44] In 1787, raw cotton consumption was 22 million pounds, most of which was cleaned, carded, and spun on machines.
Rider, Christine, ed. Encyclopedia of the Age of the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1920 (2 vol. 2007) Roberts, Wayne. "Toronto Metal Workers and the Second Industrial Revolution, 1889–1914," Labour / Le Travail, Autumn 1980, Vol. 6, pp 49–72; Roe, Joseph Wickham (1916). English and American Tool Builders. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale ...
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies with Erik Brynjolfsson (2016) ISBN 9780393350647; Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future with Erik Brynjolfsson (2018) ISBN 9780393356069
Second Industrial Revolution; Machine Age; Atomic Age; Jet Age; ... We define the Iron Age as ending in 510 BC for the purposes of this article, even though the ...
Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow [1] at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, [2] the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.