Brynjolfsson, Erik.

The second machine age : work, progress, and prosperity in the time of brilliant technologies / Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee. - New York : W. W. Norton & Company, cop. 2014. - 306 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore\'s law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from technology is the future) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

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Information technology--Economic aspects.
Economic development--Technological innovations.
Progress--Social aspects.
Social stratification.

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