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Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

By Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson

"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 Times

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Book Information

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company.
Publish Date: 06/27/2017
Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780393254297
ISBN-10: 0393254291
Language: English

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December 28, 2017

Wrapping up our look inside the books on our 2017 awards longlist, we take a peek at the books in the Big Ideas & New Perspectives category. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

July 06, 2017

Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson have written a book with real human intelligence, concern, feeling, and values, about how the second machine age is reshaping business. READ FULL DESCRIPTION

January 03, 2018

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In 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 the Authors

Andrew McAfee coined the phrase Enterprise 2. 0 in a 2006 Sloan Management Review article. He is on the faculty of Harvard Business School's Technology and Operations Management department.

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Erik Brynjolfsson, Schussel Family Professor at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, is the coeditor of Understanding the Digital Economy: Data, Tools, and Research (MIT Press).

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