by Erik Brynjolfsson
Brynjolfsson and McAfee argue digital technologies are entering an exponential phase where machines complement and displace labour in new ways. More wealth but wider inequality defines the tension.
In this collection, The Second Machine Age references 2 other books and is cited by 3 other books.
It draws on The Innovator's Dilemma and Good to Great.
It’s picked up by AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence and The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma.
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Brynjolfsson draws on Christensen's disruption theory on digital displacement.
Brynjolfsson engages with Collins's research on digital transformation.
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Lee directly engages with Brynjolfsson and McAfee's thesis from The Second Machine Age about technological unemployment, arguing their estimates are too conservative given China's rapid AI adoption and the speed of deep-learning advances
Agrawal, Gans, and Goldfarb build directly on Brynjolfsson and McAfee's The Second Machine Age analysis of digital technologies as general-purpose technologies, reframing AI specifically as a prediction technology rather than a general automation technology
Cited in
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligenceby Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
Cites Brynjolfsson and McAfee's The Second Machine Age in his bibliography when discussing how AI's economic disruption will compound as the technology matures from narrow applications to general-purpose capability
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemmaby Mustafa Suleyman
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