Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: The Second Machine Age: Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
Tuesday, January 28, 2014 6 PM PST: Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee: : The Second Machine Age @ Commonwealth Club:
Welcome to the modern age, where computers diagnose diseases, drive cars and write clean prose. Advances like these have created unprecedented economic bounty. Meanwhile, median income has stagnated and unemployment has risen. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee reveal the technological forces behind this economic sea change in what New York Times writer Thomas Friedman praised as their “fascinating new book,” The Second Machine Age. As business researchers at MIT they predict that the path to prosperity lies in businesses and individuals using ingenuity to race with machines.