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In this interview, I talk only about AI is transforming the businesses, but also about how our economy has become more efficient – the average…
In this interview, I talk only about AI is transforming the businesses, but also about how our economy has become more efficient – the average…
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Here’s terrific summary of my talk at the Bay Area tech economic seminar, courtesy of Ron Kohavi
Here’s terrific summary of my talk at the Bay Area tech economic seminar, courtesy of Ron Kohavi
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Measurement is critical, and in #ABTests I often highlight the need to spend time coming up with the Overall Evaluation Criterion (OEC). Even GDP…
Measurement is critical, and in #ABTests I often highlight the need to spend time coming up with the Overall Evaluation Criterion (OEC). Even GDP…
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
Norton
he Second Machine Age is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post Bestseller.
In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered…he Second Machine Age is a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post Bestseller.
In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.
In The Second Machine Age, we make the case that we should be optimistic about the future because technological progress, 'the only free lunch that economists believe in,' is accelerating quickly past our intuitions and expectations. But we should also be mindful of our values and our choices: as technology races ahead, it may leave a lot of people, organizations and institutions behind.
This is the book that explains the new age we're quickly heading into and shows why we should be optimistic about it, yet also discusses the challenges it will bring.Other authorsSee publication -
Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
Digital Frontier Press
We wrote this book because we believe that digital technologies are one of the most important driving forces in the economy today. They’re transforming the world of work and are key drivers of productivity and growth. Yet their impact on employment is not well understood, and definitely not fully appreciated. While digital progress grows the overall economic pie, it can do so while leaving some people, or even a lot of them, worse off.
Our technologies are racing ahead but many of our…We wrote this book because we believe that digital technologies are one of the most important driving forces in the economy today. They’re transforming the world of work and are key drivers of productivity and growth. Yet their impact on employment is not well understood, and definitely not fully appreciated. While digital progress grows the overall economic pie, it can do so while leaving some people, or even a lot of them, worse off.
Our technologies are racing ahead but many of our skills and organizations are lagging behind. So it’s urgent that we understand these phenomena, discuss their implications, and come up with strategies that allow human workers to race ahead with machines instead of racing against them.Other authorsSee publication -
Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy
MIT Press
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of returns to their technology investment are doing more than just buying technology; they are inventing new forms of organizational capital to become digital…
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth. They argue that the companies with the highest level of returns to their technology investment are doing more than just buying technology; they are inventing new forms of organizational capital to become digital organizations. These innovations include a cluster of organizational and business-process changes, including broader sharing of information, decentralized decision-making, linking pay and promotions to performance, pruning of non-core products and processes, and greater investments in training and education.
Innovation continues through booms and busts. This book provides an essential guide for policy makers and economists who need to understand how information technology is transforming the economy and how it will create value in the coming decade.Other authorsSee publication
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Ever wonder what it takes for AI to truly understand people’s needs? Meet Mengting Wan, whose research has been key in integrating user insights into…
Ever wonder what it takes for AI to truly understand people’s needs? Meet Mengting Wan, whose research has been key in integrating user insights into…
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A pleasure to meet with Michael D. Smith at #ASU this week. Michael is the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at…
A pleasure to meet with Michael D. Smith at #ASU this week. Michael is the J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy at…
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I had the opportunity to attend Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar at Stanford University , where Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson discussed GDP-B, a new metric…
I had the opportunity to attend Bay Area Tech Economics Seminar at Stanford University , where Dr. Erik Brynjolfsson discussed GDP-B, a new metric…
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In their essay, “Techno-Ideologies of the Twenty-first Century,” Mona Hamdy, Johnnie Moore, and E. Glen Weyl advocate for a more inclusive…
In their essay, “Techno-Ideologies of the Twenty-first Century,” Mona Hamdy, Johnnie Moore, and E. Glen Weyl advocate for a more inclusive…
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It was great working on the Digitalist Papers with Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Nathaniel Persily, Condi Rice and Angela Aristidou. You can get your…
It was great working on the Digitalist Papers with Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, Nathaniel Persily, Condi Rice and Angela Aristidou. You can get your…
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WebexOne 2024- the gift that keeps on giving. While the planning and learning has ended we are just getting started. Grateful for the opportunity to…
WebexOne 2024- the gift that keeps on giving. While the planning and learning has ended we are just getting started. Grateful for the opportunity to…
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