The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson

Book Overview

In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies--with hardware, software, and networks at their core--will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.

In The Second Machine Age MIT's Erik...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239357
• ISBN13: 9780393239355
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"