Summary of “The second machine age”

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Here is a short summary from Brynjolfsson and McAfee’s newest book “The second machine age”. They provide a great overview about the most recent trends and developments in this century and build a connection to it’s economics.

This summary contains some quotes from the book and is designed to provide an overview about what this book is about.

📄 Table of contents

• 1.The big stories
• 2.The skills of the new machines
• 3.Moore’s law and the second half of the chessboard
• 4.The digitization of just about everything
• 5.Innovation: Declining or Recombining?
• 6.Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age
• 7.Computing Bounty
• 8.Beyond GDP
• 9.The Spread
• 10.The biggest winners: stars and superstars
• 11.Implications of the bounty and the spread
• 12.Learning to race with machines: recommendations for individuals
• 13.Policy recommendations
• 14.Long-term recommendations
• 15.Technology and the future
• Useful links & credits