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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]