The Second Machine Age Work Progress And Prosperity In A Time Of Brilliant Technologies

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The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Erik Brynjolfsson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release : 2014-01-20
File : 320 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780393239355


Summary Of Erik Brynjolfsson Andrew Mcafee S The Second Machine Age

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 It is difficult to answer when exactly ‘human history’ began. Some argue that the domestication of animals was a fundamental development that significantly changed the course of things, but other important developments have nothing to do with animals, plants, or fighting men. #2 Morris has done a lot of research to try to figure out which developments are the most important, and he has concluded that none of them have mattered much compared to something else that bent the curve of human history like nothing before or since: social development. #3 The Industrial Revolution was the most important period of transformation in world history, as it was the first time that humanity’s progress was driven primarily by technological innovation. #4 The second machine age is doing for mental power what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power. It is allowing us to blow past previous limitations and enter new territory.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Release : 2022-04-03T22:59:00Z
File : 47 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781669377290


Banking In The Age Of The Platform Economy

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The 2008 global financial crisis and the concurrent rise of the platform economy have had profound effects on the banking sector. Over the past decade and a half, banking leaders have had to contend with rapidly evolving regulatory, technological, and competitive forces. The pace of technological change has been formidable with advances in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain technology. These forces have brought to the forefront new managerial imperatives that banking leaders have to make sense of as they strategise in light of these unfolding new realities. Banking in the Age of the Platform Economy explores the strategies that managers and leaders at banks and other financial institutions have adopted in response to the rise of the platform economy, the new forces of interdependence that it entails, and the risks/opportunities involved in cocreating value with external stakeholders. With its discussion of the strategies of interdependence and value cocreation that the top twenty banks in Europe adopted between 2008 and 2019, this book is essential reading for academics, banking and fintech professionals, and management consultants that advise banks and fintechs.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Giorgio Bou-Daher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release : 2023-05-22
File : 266 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783110792454


Reyner Banham

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An intellectual biography of the cultural critic Reyner Banham. Reyner Banham (1922-88) was one of the most influential writers on architecture, design, and popular culture from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s. Trained in mechanical engineering and art history, he was convinced that technology was making society not only more exciting but more democratic. His combination of academic rigor and pop culture sensibility put him in opposition to both traditionalists and orthodox Modernists, but placed him in a unique position to understand the cultural, social, and political implications of the visual arts in the postwar period. His first book, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (still in print with The MIT Press after forty years), was central to the overhaul of Modernism, and it gave Futurism and Expressionism credibility amid the dynamism and change of the 1960s. This intellectual biography is the first comprehensive critical examination of Banham's theories and ideas, not only on architecture but also on the wide variety of subjects that interested him. It covers the full range of his oeuvre and discusses the values, enthusiasms, and influences that formed his thinking.

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Genre : Architecture
Author : Nigel Whiteley
Publisher : MIT Press
Release : 2003-08-29
File : 524 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0262731657


Penezic Rogina

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Volume # 28 of "IT Revolution in Architecture", "Penezic + Rogina" covers one of the most interesting international architectural studio. Extremely active in the field of IT not only in experimental works but also in the concrete realization of architectures, P+R participated with major installations at Biennale of Venice since 2000 and competed relevant buildings in Croatia. Nigel Whiteley (1953-2010) was professor of Visual Arts at Lancaster University. He has lectured in several countries. His books include "Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future", "DesignFor Society", and "Pop Design - Modernism to Mod". His essays ha been published in major magazines. "IT Revolution in Architecture" is a book series initiated by Birkhäuser in 1999 and now published by Edilstampa, ANCE Rome. Founder and editor since its first publication with Testo&mmagine is Antonino Saggio. http: //www.arc1.Uniroma1.it/Saggio/IT/

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Genre : History
Author : Nigel Whiteley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Release : 2011-09-21
File : 98 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781446100158


 A Truly Golden Handbook

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What would the ideal society of the future look like? In 1516, the eminent English humanist Thomas More tried his hand at imagining a perfect society on a distant island. His Utopia was published in the Flemish town of Leuven, home of a university that was established almost a century earlier. 500 years later, scholars of this university revisit More’s best-known work and reflect on the ideal society of the future, using the scientific insights of today, including perspectives which More could never have imagined. What will our cities look like a hundred years from now? How will stem cell research and 3D printing change the world? Will we be able to cure all diseases? Will we be traveling to other planets? Will computers take over? Or will humanity find a way to improve the quality of life for everyone and feed a growing world population? In ‘A Truly Golden Handbook’, more than fifty KU Leuven scholars share their science-based utopian dreams. From the creation of spare organs, artificial intelligence and the genetic future, to global governance, ecological sustainability and pathways to more equality, this visionary book offers a broad interdisciplinary look at the world of tomorrow. Contributors All contributions were written by academics of KU Leuven Conny Aerts, Ivo Aertsen, Marc Boogaerts, Geert Bouckaert, René Bouwen, Frederik Ceyssens, Stephan Claes, Katrijn Clémer, Sara Coemans, Goele Cornelissen, Marc Craps, Joep Crompvoets, Lieven De Cauter, Ortwin de Graef, Jan De Lepeleire, Dorien De Man, Bart De Moor, Koen Devriendt, Rudi D’Hooge, Thomas D’Hooghe, Philip Dutré, Jan Elen, Liesbet Geris, Gerard Govers, Styn Grieten, Karin Hannes, Ann Heylighen, Hilde Heynen, Rianne Janssen, Rudy Lauwereins, Koen Lemmens, Peter Lievens, Katlijn Malfliet, Jan Masschelein, Terrence Merrigan, Yves Moreau, Bart Muys, Marten Ovaere, Jan Rongé, Erik Schokkaert, Frans Schuit, Maarten Simons, Manuel Sintubin, Stéphane Symons, Rik Torfs, Chantal Van Audenhove, Kenneth Van den Bergh, André Van de Putte, Hilde Van Esch, Inge Vanfraechem, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Geertrui Van Overwalle, Peter Van Puyvelde, Arne van Stiphout, An Verburgh, Peter Vermeersch, Johan Wagemans, Lode Walgrave

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Genre : Science
Author : Veerle Achten
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Release : 2016-09-26
File : 577 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789462700796


Prophets Of Computing

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When electronic digital computers first appeared after World War II, they appeared as a revolutionary force. Business management, the world of work, administrative life, the nation state, and soon enough everyday life were expected to change dramatically with these machines’ use. Ever since, diverse prophecies of computing have continually emerged, through to the present day. As computing spread beyond the US and UK, such prophecies emerged from strikingly different economic, political, and cultural conditions. This volume explores how these expectations differed, assesses unexpected commonalities, and suggests ways to understand the divergences and convergences. This book examines thirteen countries, based on source material in ten different languages—the effort of an international team of scholars. In addition to analyses of debates, political changes, and popular speculations, we also show a wide range of pictorial representations of "the future with computers."

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Genre : Computers
Author : Dick van Lente
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool
Release : 2022-12-14
File : 556 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781450398183


Planet In Peril

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Exploration of the top four mega-dangers facing humankind and plots a hopeful path to dealing with them through global governance.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Michael D. Bess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2022-10-13
File : 453 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781009160339


Planet In Peril Planetary Dangers Planetary Solutions

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Written by an award-winning historian of science and technology, Planet in Peril describes the top four mega-dangers facing humankind – climate change, nukes, pandemics, and artificial intelligence. It outlines the solutions that have been tried, and analyzes why they have thus far fallen short. These four existential dangers present a special kind of challenge that urgently requires planet-level responses, yet today's international institutions have so far failed to meet this need. The book lays out a realistic pathway for gradually modifying the United Nations over the coming century so that it can become more effective at coordinating global solutions to humanity's problems. Neither optimistic nor pessimistic, but pragmatic and constructive, the book explores how to move past ideological polarization and global political fragmentation. Unafraid to take intellectual risks, Planet in Peril sketches a plausible roadmap toward a safer, more democratic future for us all.

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Genre : Political Science
Author : Michael D. Bess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Release : 2022-10-13
File : 453 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781009184328


Managerial Control Of American Workers

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Today, surveillance and regulation of employees are pervasive at all levels (except the highest) in a wide variety of American workplaces. Digital information systems have become important tools of managerial control. The constraints built into these systems by so-called "business process reengineering" are a continuation of scientific management principles developed during the late 19th century. Additional means of control have included employment-based "welfare capitalism," and human relations and corporate culture approaches. This book provides fresh insight into various practices of managerial control from the 1880s to the present and their effects on work organization and quality, and worker skill requirements. The author highlights current developments--including those focused on highly skilled knowledge workers--accounting for enhanced automation, offshoring and related changes in the production and distribution of goods and services.

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Genre : History
Author : Mel van Elteren
Publisher : McFarland
Release : 2017-03-13
File : 346 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781476664996