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A masterful job of exploring both the promise of computer technology and its profound societal impact. --Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk

...set to be one of the zeitgeist works of 2014... -- The Guardian ...an ambitious, engaging and at times terrifying vision of where modern technology is taking the human race...The authors may not have the solution to growing inequality, but their book marks one of the most effective explanations yet for the origins of the gap. -- The Economist Brynjolfsson and McAfee started to lay out their vision of the challenges of the technological revolution more than three years ago. But their broadly optimistic book is still one of the best summaries of the debate about the impact of digital change on our future job prospects and prosperity. -- Andrew Hill, Best Books of 2014 - Financial Times ...a fascinating book... -- Roger Bootle - The Telegraph Crammed with analyses of everything from human-machine competition to the state of US education. -- Nature ...fascinating book... -- John Lanchester - London Review of Books The fear that robots will take over is, of course, as old as dystopian literature. The new and unheralded development is something called the Internet. This point is elegantly made in a suddenly ubiquitous new book called The Second Machine Age, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. -- Evening Standard ...one of last year's most important books... -- New Statesman ...influential... -- The Observer ...it [The Second Machine Age] feels like a must-read for entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers. -- The Huffington Post My favourite and most revealing book of the year was not a novel but a non-fiction publication... a book that throws you off-balance while reading. Different to other publications, it is not only a real analysis and well-researched perspective, but also utterly optimistic. -- The Art Newspaper ...brilliant new book. -- The Evening Standard

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 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 Offers important insights into how digital technologies are transforming our economy, a process that has only just begun. -- Reid Hoffman, cofounder/chairman of LinkedIn and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Start-up of You 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Booth School of Business and former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers 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 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 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 Fascinating. -- Andrew Leonard Maddeningly reasonable and readable. -- Thomas Claburn Excellent. -- Clive Cook Optimistic and intriguing. -- Steven Pearlstein My favorite book so far of 2014. Both hopeful...and realistic. -- Joshua Kim A masterful job of exploring both the promise of computer technology and its profound societal impact. -- Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk

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Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and one of the most cited scholars in information systems and economics. Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Digital Business and the author of Enterprise 2.0.

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