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| Author | Erik Brynjolfsson Andrew McAfee |
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| Language | English |
| Published | 2014 |
| Publisher | Norton & Company |
| Publication place | United States |
| ISBN | 978-0393239355 |
| Preceded by | Race Against the Machine |
| History of technology |
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies is a 2014 book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee that is a continuation of their book Race Against the Machine. They argue that the Second Machine Age involves the automation of a lot of cognitive tasks that make humans and software-driven machines substitutes, rather than complements. They contrast this with what they call the "First Machine Age", or Industrial Revolution, which helped make labor and machines complementary.[1]
Some examples that the book cites include "software that grades students' essays more objectively, consistently and quickly than humans" and "news articles on Forbes.com about corporate earnings previews" — "all generated by algorithms without human involvement."[2]
- ^ "If I Had a Hammer". The New York Times. January 11, 2014. Retrieved July 8, 2015.
- ^ Bill Teuber (January 22, 2014). "The Coming of the Second Machine Age". The Huffington Post. Retrieved July 8, 2015.