The Second Machine Age

work, progress, and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies

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lingua English

Pubblicato il 23 Settembre 2014 da W.W. Norton & Co..

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978-0-393-23935-5
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A revolution is under way. 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 Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee -- two thinkers at the forefront of their field -- reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kinds, from lawyers to truck …

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5 stelle

This is the kind of book one savors -- a page here, a chapter there, a little pondering, and then a little more. The book was not dense, but it was worth pausing for contemplation. By the time I completed it, at the pace of the Information Age, it was already venerable. If I could recommend one book that explains the positive potential and likely pitfalls of the maturing Information Age, this would be it. As I finished the book, the Democratic primary for the 2020 U.S. Presidential election took shape. Concerning the world we will likely face in the short- and medium- term future, as described by this book, Andrew Yang "gets it" -- the others, not so much. Although we are in charge of our destinies, if there is an irreducible inevitability of change guaranteed by the Information Age, his platform positions are closest to dealing with it. …

Review of 'Second Machine Age' on 'Goodreads'

4 stelle

I due autori di questo libro presentano in questo saggio una tesi molto forte e direi assolutamente minoritaria: che stiamo per entrare in una nuova Età dell'Oro, con un salto di qualità pari a quello che abbiamo avuto dalla fine del '700 a oggi grazie alla possibilità di avere energia a basso costo. In questo caso non parliamo naturalmente di energia quanto del fatto che con l'età digitale abbiamo di fronte un'opportunità mai vista per migliorare la vita di tutti noi, se solo sapremo vedere le cose in un altro modo.
Premetto subito una cosa: ritengo che il primo dei tre cambi di paradigma che secondo gli autori si stanno verificando, vale a dire la crescita esponenziale, non esista. Certo, la legge di Moore in questi decenni è stata verificata, ma ci vuole un atto di fede troppo grande per immaginare che continuerà ancora per qualche decennio: gli stessi autori …