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PRAISE FOR MORE IS LESS--PRAISE FOR MORE IS LESS A brilliant look at the future that technology is bringing to our economic and social lives. Read The Second Machine Age if you want to prepare yourself and your children for the world of work ahead. --Zoe Baird, president, Markle Foundation A masterful job of exploring both the promise of computer technology and its profound societal impact. --Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk A whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed. --Hal Varian, chief economist at Google After reading this book, your world view will be flipped: you'll see that collective intelligence will come not only from networked brains but also from massively connected and intelligent machines. --Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of the MIT Media Lab, founder of One Laptop per Child, and author of Being Digital An important book on the technology-driven opportunities and challenges we all face in the next decade. Anyone who wants to understand how amazing new technologies are transforming our economy should start here. --Austan Goolsbee, professor of economics at the University of Chicago Brynjolfsson and McAfee are right: we are on the cusp of a dramatically different world brought on by technology. The Second Machine Age is the book for anyone who wants to thrive in it. I'll encourage all of our entrepreneurs to read it, and hope their competitors don't. --Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz Brynjolfsson and McAfee do an amazing job of explaining the progression of technology, giving us a glimpse of the future, and explaining the economics of these advances. And they provide sound policy prescriptions. Their book could also have been titled Exponential Economics 101?it is a must-read. --Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering and author of The Immigrant Exodus Excellent. --Bloomberg Fascinating. --Salon In this optimistic book Brynjolfsson and McAfee clearly explain the bounty that awaits us from intelligent machines. But they argue that creating the bounty depends on finding ways to race with the machine rather than racing against the machine. That means people like me need to build machines that are easy to master and use. Ultimately, those who embrace the new technologies will be the ones who benefit most. --Rodney Brooks, chairman and CTO of Rethink Robotics, Inc Maddeningly reasonable and readable. --Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek My favorite book so far of 2014. Both hopeful...and realistic. --Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education Offers important insights into how digital technologies are transforming our economy, a process that has only just begun. --Reid Hoffman, coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Start-up of You Optimistic and intriguing. --The Washington Post Technology is overturning the world's economies, and The Second Machine Age is the best explanation of this revolution yet written. --Kevin Kelly, senior maverick for Wired and author of What Technology Wants This provocative book is both grounded and visionary, with highly approachable economic analyses that add depth to their vision. A must-read. --John Seely Brown, coauthor of The Power of Pull and A New Culture of Learning Truly helped me see the world of tomorrow through exponential rather than arithmetic lenses. Macro and microscopic frontiers now seem plausible, meaning that learners and teachers alike are in a perpetual mode of catching up with what is possible. It frames a future that is genuinely exciting! --Clayton M. Christensen, Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator's Dilemma What globalization was to the economic debates of the late 20th century, technological change is to the early 21st century. Long after the financial crisis and great recession have receded, the issues raised in this important book will be central to our lives and our politics. --Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University Will our new technologies lift us all up or leave more and more of us behind? The Second Machine Age is the essential guide to how and why that success will, or will not, be achieved. --Garry Kasparov, thirteenth World Chess Champion

Previous Praise for Andrew McAfee's books A compelling blueprint. --Marc Benioff Essential reading. --Reid Hoffman Exhilarating... fascinating, enjoyable to read, and tremendously empowering. --Steven Pinker Magnificent contribution [that] will help us navigate society's future in profound ways. --Clay Christensen Packed with practical news and that will disconcert idealogues of all stripes. --Stewart Brand The best kind of surprise. --Eric Schmidt Urgently needed and clear-eyed. --Marc Andreessen

"""Andrew McAfee's The Geek Way​ outlines what has become a critical advantage for the United States, for Silicon Valley, and for many American companies. If you wish to understand the last twenty years of American life, and probably the next twenty as well, this book is essential reading.""--Tyler Cowen, author of Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero ""Juxtaposed to our outsized celebrity obsessed culture is the rise of a subtler but infinitely more powerful shift toward geek culture. The hegemony of geekdom in Silicon Valley and across the world is the underlying force that drives innovation and powers our economy. Andrew McAfee's The Geek Way is the guidebook for understanding this shift and navigating these turbulent times.""--Richard Florida, bestselling author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban Crisis ""How fast can you find out you are wrong? This is the predictive metric of success in Silicon Valley. Mcafee explains why the leaders who build organizations that will help everyone who works there learn really quickly whether they are right or wrong will win in the new economy. And he shows why the leaders who allow their success to dampen their eagerness to hear about it when they are wrong have sown the seeds of their own failure. Essential!""--Kim Scott, author of the New York Times bestselling Radical Candor and Radical Respect ""The Geek Way makes a fascinating case that the most important technological revolution of our time isn't what companies make, but how they're managed. Andy McAfee is a world-class intellectual provocateur--he never ceases to challenge my assumptions and sharpen my thinking--and reading this book will do the same for you. It's the most compelling analysis I've seen of what Silicon Valley has learned about building more effective organizations, and what they still have to learn."" --Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THINK AGAIN and HIDDEN POTENTIAL, and host of the TED podcast Re: Thinking ""In industry after industry, corporate boards are asking management what their plan is to thrive in an unsettled, fast-changing environment. The Geek Way contains among the best answers I've seen to this critical question.""--Dambisa Moyo, Global Economist; Member, House of Lords ""I can see dead companies. They're the large incumbents who still run themselves as if software isn't eating the world. If you'd rather lead the transformation than be consumed by it, start putting this book's insights into practice as quickly as you can.""--Steve Jurvetson, geek ""I've worked closely with Andy for more than a decade, I'm still blown away by this book. It's bold and original, relevant and rigorous, and immediately useful for any restless, curious innovator. In other words, for any geek.""--Erik Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and co-author of the New York Times bestselling The Second Machine Age ""[A] smart, irreverent, informative guide to navigating the future of work. Companies that don't follow The Geek Way, according to author Andy McAfee, will fall behind...Each of these simple words contains more than you can know, until you read this remarkable book.""--Amy C. Edmondson, Professor of Leadership & Management, Harvard Business School, and author of Right Kind of Wrong ""Andy understands that we haven't just been creating new technologies in Silicon Valley -- we've also been creating new ways to run a company in a world permeated by tech. Here he distills what we've come up with. This book is a handbook for disruptors.""--Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google ""By combining management theory, competitive strategy, the science of evolution, psychology, military history, and cultural anthropology, McAfee has produced a remarkable work of synthesis that finally explains, with a single unified theory (which he dubs ""the geek way"") the reasons why the tech startup approach has taken over so much of the world.""--Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn and New York Times bestselling author of The Start Up of You"

"""The chapter titles alone - which intrigue and baffle in equal measure - should compel you to read this smart, irreverent, informative guide to navigating the future of work. Companies that don't follow The Geek Way, according to Author Andy McAfee, will fall behind. And it's all about creating the right culture. Yup. Culture. I bet you didn't see that coming. A culture of speed, ownership, science, and openness. Each of these simple words contains more than you can know, until you read this remarkable book.""--Amy C. Edmondson, Harvard Business School; Author, Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well"

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Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management and co-founder and co-director of MIT's Initiative on the Digital Economy. He studies how technological progress changes the world. He is the author of More from Less and the coauthor of the New York Times bestselling The Second Machine Age.

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