"Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies"
by E. Brynjolfsson, A. McAfee
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- 1st machine age
- James Watt’s invention (or, more accurately, the refinement) of the steam engine
- Humanity has reached a inflection point for the computer age
- Technology
- Moore's Law & 2nd part of chessboard
- Examples: Self driving cars, IBM Watson, Waze app, ..
- Innovation: Declining or Recombining?
- Economy
- GDP, Bounty & spread
- The Biggest Winners: Stars and Superstars
- Universal Basic Income
- Negative Income Tax
- Peer economy
- Policy recommendations
- revamping education so that it prepares people for the next - economy instead of the last one
- designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power - with human ingenuity
- embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape