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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.
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee highlighted this problem toward the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century. [2] This problem furthermore leads to wage stagnation for the median despite continued economic growth overall.
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.
Race Against the Machine is a non-fiction book from 2011 by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee about the interaction of digital technology, employment and organization. The full title of the book is: Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution Is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy.
Erik Brynjolfsson, American author and inventor [92] Andrew McAfee, American research scientist [92] Timothy Leary, candidate for governor of California in 1969 [93] Eugene McCarthy, candidate for president of the United States in 1968 [93] Peter Diamandis, Greek-American entrepreneur [94] [95] Albert Wenger, German-American businessman [96]
Unlike many others, Brynjolfsson sees AI potentially bringing a bright future for human workers. The key to developing AI is “augmenting humans rather than mimicking them,” he says.
Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee have examined a similar phenomenon in their 2014 book, The Second Machine Age. In The Technology Trap, Carl Benedikt Frey argues that advanced economies are in a new Engels' pause and compares the experience of the Industrial Revolution in England to the post-1980 Computer Revolution. [8]
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