Machine, Platform, Crowd, Erik Brynjolfsson
Machine, Platform, Crowd, Erik Brynjolfsson
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Machine, Platform, Crowd
Harnessing Our Digital Future

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

Narrator: Jeff Cummings

Unabridged: 10 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2017

Synopsis

“A clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy. But McAfee and Brynjolfsson also wisely acknowledge the limitations of their futurology and avoid over-simplification.” ―Financial TimesIn The Second Machine Age, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson predicted some of the far-reaching effects of digital technologies on our lives and businesses. Now they’ve written a guide to help readers make the most of our collective future. Machine | Platform | Crowd outlines the opportunities and challenges inherent in the science fiction technologies that have come to life in recent years, like self-driving cars and 3D printers, online platforms for renting outfits and scheduling workouts, or crowd-sourced medical research and financial instruments.

About Erik Brynjolfsson

Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School. He is the author of several best-selling books with co-author Andrew McAfee, and one of the world’s most cited scholars in information systems and economics.

About Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of the best-selling The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. He and co-author Erik Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers 50 list of the world’s top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Athan

Warning! Red Alert! At the end of each chapter this book has summaries of the main points and questions, and in particular questions about how the content of the chapter may relate to the goings on at “your employer.” It is clearly meant to be packaged into “continued education” courses offered by t......more

Goodreads review by Atila

Uma continuação do The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, com desdobramentos sociais do mundo tecnológico moderno. Não me acrescentou tanto quanto o primeiro – que foi de longe um dos livros mais influentes que li – mas trouxe boas ideias. Ele é n......more

Goodreads review by Pavel

Неплохая книга, но много воды. Три основные мысли размазаны на 300+ страниц. Хорошая глава очень просто объясняющая, что такое блокчейн и умные контракты. И две последние итоговые главы стоит прочитать. Если выбирать, что читать про будущее, то лучше прочитайте The Inevitable.......more

Goodreads review by Marks54

I was disappointed with this. The authors are well known professors/consultants who write a lot about current developments in technology and the workplace. They place current developments in the context of our prior understandings of industry, work, and technology and thus help their readers orient t......more

Goodreads review by Elena

I enjoyed it. I do not watch TV and do not read news so i only found out about this couture clothing and accessories renting platforms from this book. Clever. And some items are exposed to particular markets after they served their time in more advanced ones. And too bad the system of purchasing unl......more

Quotes

"A book for managers whose companies sit well back from the edge and who would like a digestible introduction to technology trends that may not have reached their doorstep―yet."
― Wall Street Journal

"The story is warmly and richly told.… This book is in many senses a primer, a thorough grounding for the digital warrior in the driving forces of the 21st-century economy."
― Times Higher Education

"Even Silicon Valley is surprised by the speed and scope of change today. The best way to stay on top of it is to understand the principles that will endure even as so much gets disrupted. This book is the best explanation of those principles out there."
― Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google and former executive chairman of Alphabet Inc.

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