”We’re
entering unknown territory in the quest to reduce labor costs. The AI
revolution is doing to white collar jobs what robotics did to blue
collar jobs. Race Against the Machine is a bold effort to make sense of
the future of work. No one else is doing serious thinking about a force
that will lead to a restructuring of the economy that is more profound
and far-reaching than the transition from the agricultural to the
industrial age. Brynjolfsson and McAfee have hit the ball out of
the park on this one. It’s a book anyone concerned with either
business, or more broadly, the future of our society, simply must read.”
– Tim O’Reilly“This is, quite simply, the best book yet written on the interaction of digital technology, employment and organization. Race Against the Machine is meticulously researched, sobering, practical and, ultimately, hopeful. It is an extremely important contribution to the debate about how we ensure that every human being benefits from the digital revolution that is still gathering speed. If you read only one book on technology in the next 12 months, it should be this one.” -Gary Hamel
“In social science inquiry, we badly need the right people asking, and answering, the right questions. That’s precisely what Brynjolfsson and McAfee do in this important treatise on the intersection of technology and the economy. Moreover, they’re tackling the most important question of the present and the future: where are the new jobs going to come from?” – Jared Bernstein
“This is an extraordinarily timely book – shedding important light on the biggest economic issue facing this country. Marshalling an impressive array of data, the authors discuss where and how IT is contributing to our unemployment crisis and increasingly uneven wealth distribution. More importantly, they provide a roadmap that will help us to turn this challenge into an opportunity. Anyone concerned about our future needs to read this eloquent perspective.” - John Hagel
“Race Against the Machine is a portrait of the digital world – a world where competition, labor and leadership are less important than collaboration, creativity and networks.” – Nicholas Negroponte
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“Race Against the Machine.”
In a world where competition, labor and leadership are less important than collaboration, creativity and networks it creates a completely new dynamic. But in the meantime people still need to eat, to live, and to have a place that is safe for them to be and to even grow up.
How does that work?
This might be the most profound question of our time. If people aren't cared for either through jobs or some other means the only thing left for them to do is to revolt. So, some thinking needs to go into what happens to the masses in developed nations, especially democracies.
Do they have to revolt or die? Are these their only choice left?
If a new system will not employ them and if they cannot create their own businesses to support themselves for one reason or another, what choices do they have left?
I was talking to my daughter and her boyfriend about this and how 100 to 150 years ago people didn't expect to live to even 40 to 60 years of age so all these problems were much less of a problem than now. Then just surviving to adulthood was the exception rather than the rule like it is now. Even when I was growing up in the 50's many of us died from babyhood on along the way. There were no seat belts in cars, no protections from numerous types of hazing or even torture or murder almost anywhere you went even in the U.S. at that time. Men I knew simply saw all this as survival of the fittest like in a giant earth jungle. I even bought into this point of view too as a child and young adult.
However, here we have something more profound in changes than the Industrial revolution and almost no one is talking about the ramifications worldwide. Thank you both for writing "Race Against the Machine".
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