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Working on The Second Machine Age.

Here are some sources I'd like to use.

Listing of TOC for the book from https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/1499477/TOC 1	The big stories 2	The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead 3	Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard 4	The digitization of just about everything 5	Innovation : declining or recombining? 6	Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age 7	Computing bounty 8	Beyond GDP 9	The spread 10	The biggest winners : stars and superstars 11	Implications of the bounty and the spread 12	Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals 13	Policy recommendations 14	Long-term recommendations 15	Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").

A couple of reviews

1) http://ilr.sagepub.com/content/68/2/460.extract#

ILR Review March 2015 68: 460-461, doi: 10.1177/0019793914565342

long quote from it... Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee … root their exploration of the prospects for prosperity in a gleeful tour of the newest developments in article intelligence, robotics, machine learning, and the Internet economy. … The author’s central thesis is that we are living through the early period of a second machine age. Computers and digital technologies are substituting for and augmenting human brain power in much the same way that the steam engine and associated developments .. substituted for and augmented human muscle power.

2) http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118327/second-machine-age-reviewed-paul-starr “New Technology Doesn't Make Us All Richer” by Paul Starr, July 6, 2014

This is unfortunately much more of a meditation by Paul Starr on inequality than a description or review of the book in question.

This quote might be useful:

"So why don’t we see the results in the productivity data? According to Brynjolfsson and McAfee, the answer has two parts: institutional lag and statistical mismeasurement."

2) http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n05/john-lanchester/the-robots-are-coming

Regrettably, the John Lanchester "review" in London Review of Books is also long on theorizing and short on information about the book itself. In fact, aside from one extended quote for SMA, it barely mentions SMA at all. The extended quote here is

Rodney Brooks, who co-founded iRobot, noticed something else about modern, highly automated factory floors: people are scarce, but they’re not absent. And a lot of the work they do is repetitive and mindless. On a line that fills up jelly jars, for example, machines squirt a precise amount of jelly into each jar, screw on the top, and stick on the label, but a person places the empty jars on the conveyor belt to start the process. Why hasn’t this step been automated? Because in this case the jars are delivered to the line 12 at a time in cardboard boxes that don’t hold them firmly in place. This imprecision presents no problem to a person (who simply sees the jars in the box, grabs them, and puts them on the conveyor belt), but traditional industrial automation has great difficulty with jelly jars that don’t show up in exactly the same place every time.