Why has median income stopped rising in the US?
Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly?
Why are our economy and society are becoming more unequal?
A popular explanation right now is that the root cause underlying these symptoms is technological stagnation-- a slowdown in the kinds of ideas and inventions that bring progress and prosperity.
In Race Against the Machine, MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee present a very different explanation. Drawing on research by their team at the Center for Digital Business, they show that there's been no stagnation in technology -- in fact, the digital revolution is accelerating. Recent advances are the stuff of science fiction: computers now drive cars in traffic, translate between human languages effectively, and beat the best human Jeopardy! players.
As these examples show, digital technologies are rapidly encroaching on skills that used to belong to humans alone. This phenomenon is both broad and deep, and has profound economic implications. Many of these implications are positive; digital innovation increases productivity, reduces prices (sometimes to zero), and grows the overall economic pie.
But digital innovation has also changed how the economic pie is distributed, and here the news is not good for the median worker. As technology races ahead, it can leave many people behind. Workers whose skills have been mastered by computers have less to offer the job market, and see their wages and prospects shrink. Entrepreneurial business models, new organizational structures and different institutions are needed to ensure that the average worker is not left behind by cutting-edge machines.
In Race Against the Machine Brynjolfsson and McAfee bring together a range of statistics, examples, and arguments to show that technological progress is accelerating, and that this trend has deep consequences for skills, wages, and jobs. The book makes the case that employment prospects are grim for many today not because there's been technology has stagnated, but instead because we humans and our organizations aren't keeping up.
埃裏剋·布林約爾鬆(Erik Brynjolfsson),麻省理工斯隆管理學院的教授,麻省理工數字商務中心主任,《斯隆管理評論》主席,國傢經濟研究局助理研究員,與人閤著有《連綫創新:信息技術如何重塑經濟》。早年畢業於哈佛大學和麻省理工學院。
安德魯·麥卡菲(Andrew McAfee),麻省理工斯隆管理學院數字商務中心的首席研究科學傢和副主任。曾著有《企業2.0:幫助企業迎接最嚴峻挑戰的全新協作工具》。早年畢業於麻省理工學院和哈佛大學。
本書網站:http://raceagainstthemachine.com/
作者之一安德魯·麥卡菲曾在“TEDxBoston”大會上以“與機器賽跑”為題發錶演講,視頻地址:http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxBoston-Andrew-McAfee-Race-A
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