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    "title": "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies ",
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    "description": "A New York Times Bestseller. A \u201cfascinating\u201d (Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times) look at how digital technology is transforming our work and our lives.\nIn recent years, Google\u2019s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM\u2019s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies\u2015with hardware, software, and networks at their core\u2015will 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.\n\nIn The Second Machine Age MIT\u2019s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee\u2015two thinkers at the forefront of their field\u2015reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.\n\nAmid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kinds\u2015from lawyers to truck drivers\u2015will be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.\n\nDrawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include 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, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.\n\nA fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age alters how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.",
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