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Audie Prize, Judges' Prize: Research & Technology, 2015 A revolution is under way. Lately, Google's autonomous automobiles have logged thousands of a long way on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best man Jeopardy! players. Digital systems - with hardware, software, and sites at their key - will in the near future diagnose diseases more effectively than doctors can, apply great data models to convert retailing, and attain many duties once considered uniquely human. In The Second Machine Era MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee - two thinkers at the forefront of these field - expose the forces driving a vehicle the reinvention of our lives and our overall economy. As the entire impact of digital systems is felt, we will realize enormous bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless usage of the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty may also be wrenching change. Professions of all sorts - from attorneys to truck motorists - will be permanently upended. Companies will be required to transform or die. Recent economic indications reflect this shift: Fewer people will work, and income are falling even as productivity and gains soar. Drawing on many years of research and up-to-the-minute styles, 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 rather than the previous one, developing new collaborations that pair brute processing electric power with human ingenuity, and embracing insurance policies that produce sense in a radically changed panorama. A fundamentally positive audiobook, The Second Machine Era will adjust how exactly we think about issues.
