Andrew Mcafee

A revolution is under way. In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologieswith hardware, software, and networks at their corewill 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, MITs Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfeetwo thinkers at the forefront of their fieldreveal 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 kindsfrom lawyers to truck driverswill be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.A fundamentally optimistic audiobook, The Second Machine Age will alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

A New York Times Bestseller. A fascinating (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologieswith hardware, software, and networks at their corewill 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 MITs Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfeetwo thinkers at the forefront of their fieldreveal 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 kindsfrom lawyers to truck driverswill be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age alters how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

A New York Times BestsellerA revolution is under way.In recent years, Googles autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBMs Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologieswith hardware, software, and networks at their corewill 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 MITs Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfeetwo thinkers at the forefront of their fieldreveal 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 kindsfrom lawyers to truck driverswill be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age will alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.

¿Por qué nuestra sociedad es cada vez más desigual? ¿Por qué la proporción de gente con trabajo está cayendo tan rápidamente? ¿Por qué las rentas medias han dejado de crecer?Según una explicación frecuente, la causa fundamental de estos hechos es la desaceleracion de las ideas y los inventos que conducen al progreso y a la prosperidad.En La carrera contra la maquina, los investigadores del MIT Erik Brynjolfsson y Andrew McAfee ofrecen una explicacion muy diferente. Demuestran que no solo los avances tecnologicos no estan estancados sino que la revolucion digital se esta acelerando. Esto hace que las nuevas maquinas posean unas habilidades que hasta ahora estaban reservadas solamente a los humanos. Se trata de un fenomeno amplio y profundo con serias consecuencias economicas.Algunas de estas consecuencias son positivas, como el aumento de productividad, la reduccion de precios y el crecimiento de la riqueza en general. Pero la innovacion digital tambien cambia la manera como se reparte esta riqueza, y aqui las noticias son malas para el trabajador medio. Con un progreso tecnologico corriendo mas que nunca, mucha gente se esta quedando atras. Aquellos trabajadores cuyas habilidades han sido incorporadas a los ordenadores modernos tienen poco que ofrecer en el mercado de trabajo y ven como sus salarios se reducen y su futuro se ensombrece.El argumento del libro es que las perspectivas de empleo son negras para mucha gente no porque el progreso tecnologico se haya estancado sino porque los hombres y las instituciones no corren lo bastante. Nuevos modelos de emprendeduria, nuevas estructuras organizativas y unas instituciones diferentes son necesarias para garantizar que el trabajador medio no se quede rezagado detras de las maquinas mas avanzadas.Este es un libro extraordinariamente oportuno, que clarifica la cuestion economica mas seria que nuestras sociedades afrontan y proporciona una hoja de ruta que nos ayudara a convertir el desafio de las nuevas tecnologias en una oportunidad. -John Hagel, co-presidente de Deloitte Center for the EdgeEste es, simplemente, el mejor libro escrito hasta la fecha sobre la interaccion entre la tecnologia digital, el empleo y la empresa. []Si en el proximo año usted solo leyera un libro sobre las nuevas tecnologias y su impacto en las sociedades modernas, deberia ser este. -Profesor Gary Hamel, director de Management LabEn la investigacion en ciencias sociales, necesitamos desesperadamente que se hagan, y se respondan, las preguntas mas importantes. Eso es precisamente lo que Brynjolfsson y McAfee hacen en este importante libro sobre la interseccion entre tecnologia y economia. Diria aun mas, afrontan la pregunta mas importante del presente y del futuro: ¿de donde van a venir los nuevos trabajos?. -Jared Bernstein, ex economista en jefe del vicepresidente de los EEUU Joe Biden

Companies that don t use AI will soon be obsolete From making faster better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society What should you and your company be doing today to ensure that you re poised for success and keeping up with your competitors in the age of AI Artificial Intelligence The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you today s most essential thinking on AI and explains how to launch the right initiatives at your company to capitalize on the opportunity of the machine intelligence revolution Business is changing Will you adapt or be left behind Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company s future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series Featuring HBR s smartest thinking on fast moving issues blockchain cybersecurity AI and more each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research interviews and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow You can t afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society The Insights You Need series will

The Geek Way explains the radical new mindset that is revolutionizing business culture leadership personal successes and how to use it yourself

Economist Best Books of the Year Financial Times Business Book of the Month A handbook for disruptors Eric Schmidt former CEO of Google We re living in a time of amazing technological innovation but we re not paying enough attention to one of the most important innovations of all one that s going to be a wellspring of progress for a long time to come This innovation is to the company itself a new model is being pioneered by geeks who have instituted a radical new mindset that has shifted the paradigm entirely on what a business can and should be They do not follow the rules of the Industrial era with their hierarchies and bureaucratic ways of thinking They do not follow the principles preached in business schools since the dawn of time They have all dedicated themselves to approaching business as a geek would through trial and error egalitarianism evidence and stress testing ideas in a group setting rather than relying on the boss s instincts McAfee s groundbreaking exploration of this emerging phenomenon gets to the heart of the tectonic shifts taking place all over the business world The future will be geek By investigating contemporary research in psychology economics and behavioural sciences as well as first hand accounts from the gee

Una obra que plantea una nueva forma de alcanzar grandes logros en un mundo empresarial cada vez más rápido. Cambiará la forma en que concibes el trabajo, los equipos, los proyectos y la cultura, y te proporcionara la comprension y las herramientas necesarias para tomar las riendas de nuestros superpoderes humanos de aprendizaje y cooperacion.¿Que significa ser un geek? Los geeks utilizan su insaciable curiosidad y su amor por la innovacion para afrontar el reto de crear mejores productos y empresas; no temen abordar grandes problemas y aplicar soluciones poco convencionales, y no les preocupa seguir la corriente.McAfee muestra como los geeks han creado una nueva cultura basada en cuatro normas: ciencia, autonomia, velocidad y mentalidad abierta. No prioriza a los expertos, ni esta supeditada a la planificacion y los procesos; sus practicantes no temen cometer fallos, ni estan obsesionados con ganar. Al principio, su enfoque puede parecer extraño. Pero cuando las cuatro normas se ponen en marcha, emerge una cultura libre, agil, igualitaria, basada en evidencias, argumentativa y autonoma. ¿Por que el metodo geek funciona tan bien? McAfee proporciona una respuesta original: porque aprovecha los superpoderes humanos, que son nuestra habilidad de cooperar intensamente y aprender con rapidez. Combinando teoria de la gestion, estrategia competitiva, ciencia de la evolucion, psicologia y antropologia cultural, asi como historias que ejemplifican el estilo geek en accion, McAfee ofrece una nueva manera de observar el mundo, asi como herramientas para aprovechar las grandes oportunidades de hoy y de mañana.