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Future · 20 min

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

By Erik Brynjolfsson

An incisive analysis of the 'second machine age,' exploring how digital technologies are decoupling productivity from prosperity, creating winner-take-all markets, and compelling us to redefine human value in an increasingly automated world.

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“An incisive analysis of the 'second machine age,' exploring how digital technologies are decoupling productivity from prosperity, creating winner-take-all markets, and compelling us to redefine human value in an increasingly automated world.”

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

What it is about

second machine age, automation impact, economic decoupling

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Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of second machine age, automation impact, economic decoupling and better judgment in how they apply it.

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Erik Brynjolfsson brings a credible and useful lens to second machine age, automation impact, economic decoupling, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Erik Brynjolfsson

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