This book is divided into three sections: motivation, analysis, and recommendations. The analysis section is the worthwhile part.The motivations section (chapters 1-6) is a boringly familiar summary of technology trends (IT productivity, digitization, crowd-sourcing). The recommendations (chapter...
Great read. Brynjolfsson and McAfee do a great job getting you as excited as they are about the changes our world is going to go through the next couple of years. I'm not sure I'm as optimistic as they are, but I too am impressed with the latest technological progress. I'm also very happy that th...
This little monograph / pamphlet / ebook does not start in a very promising way. It lists a bunch of ways computers have “raced” ahead of us humans: they now beat us in chess, they beat is in Jeopardy, they can translate documents, they fly our planes, they can do a passable job of driving a car....