by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee · Plassen Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783864702112
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«The Second Machine Age» is the essay by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee on technology and economics, published by Plassen Verlag in hardcover and in German.
The book starts from the growing ability of machines to drive, write texts or win at chess and argues that digitalization is a second industrial revolution. The authors analyze its impact on employment, the economy and society, and the political and collective challenges posed by the new digital intelligence.
The original English work was published in 2014 and the German edition came out that same year, translated by Petra Pyka and with a foreword by Herbert Henzler.
Aimed at professionals, academics and readers interested in technology, economics and the future of work.
Erik Brynjolfsson is an American academic, author and inventor. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University where he directs the Digital Economy Lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, with appointments at SIEPR, the Stanford Department of Economics and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an author of several books. From 1990 to 2020, he was a professor at MIT.
