Machine, Platform, Crowd

Harnessing Our Digital Future

By: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

Narrated by: Jeff Cummings

“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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©2017 Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Critic reviews

"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.)

inspiring, thought provokingand also informative.

I enjoyed listened to the program. However, I am wondering where the next disruption and innovation would be and my role in it.

A must listen

Interesting concepts and compelling examples that span industries, technologies , individuals, companies and markets on the key influences shaping the 2nd machine age.

Interesting take on new trends in business and tec

Interesting book. I was already familiar with most concepts but there were a few new insights that made the book worthwhile.

Great book!

I highly recommend this book! Brings together many current concepts in an easy to understand way. Keep writing you guys!

Superb

The book is based on a comprehensive research, narrative is succint and fluid, reader's performance is great.

Relative to business leader with aim to the future

This is really good outlook on current technology capabilities and it’s potential. Business futurist a must read material.

Insightful summary of our present and future

It started a bit slow for me, already somewhat familiar with some of the topics, but it turned into a very insightful series of statements and analysis about our very recent past like the advances of the 2000s and 2010s, our present, and our future both near and the more futuristic musings about where we may be headed.

Highly recommend for anyone who is not an expert on the subjects of our current IT-driven economic revolution.

Mind expanding

A clear, concise decoder ring to the digital disruptions of the past decade, and a good primer for what is yet to come.

Both How AND Why for Techies

Being a technology professional I am sometimes frustrated by books that are not technical enough or if they are technical enough, do not consider the social aspect of technology adoption. This book does a remarkable job in dismantling the hype and buzz around these topics and replacing it with an exciting and compelling view of what is and will be soon happening. This book is the best I have read on the topic of crowd and platform and how it is changing the IT landscape. If you are a technology leader you must read this book!

Not as good as Second Machine Age;

Still worth a listen. Nice stories and perspectives, but concepts not as novel as Second Machine Age.