Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

McAfee, Andrew; Brynjolfsson, Erik

ISBN 10: 039335606X / ISBN 13: 9780393356069

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039335606X
• ISBN 13: 9780393356069
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

“A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledge the limitations of their futurology and avoid over-simplification.” ―Financial Times

In The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help readers make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.

About the Authors

Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of the best-selling The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. He and co-author Erik Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers 50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.

Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School. He is the author of several best-selling books with co-author Andrew McAfee, and one of the world’s most cited scholars in information systems and economics.