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Machine, Platform, Crowd
- Harnessing Our Digital Future
- Narrated by: Jeff Cummings
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Summary
“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
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 listeners 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.
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"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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- Anonymous User
- 25-09-17
Amazing
This book really paints a wonderful picture of where we are and where we are going. Discussing outdated ways of acting and thinking, and offering both sides to all points brought up. Machine, Platform, Crowd is a keenly insightful window into the effects, both current and future, of technology on a personal and macro scale.... all wrapped up in a delightful now of contagious optimism
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- SAB
- 16-06-18
insightful
looked forward to listening to the book each morning on my way to work. the book nicely ties past with present and how success has been acheived in platform based applications
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- Jim S
- 05-02-18
interesting follow-up to second machine age
found it hard to concentrate on this follow-up because I thought I had heard much of it before in the second machine age. there's new material on bitcoin and the crowd but not as compelling as first time round
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- M O.
- 19-07-17
Very insightful
loved the book. I am maybe being a little harsh but I think it lost its way at the end. well read
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