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Machine, platform, crowd : harnessing our digital future /

McAfee, Andrew,

Machine, platform, crowd : harnessing our digital future / Harnessing our digital future / - 402 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The triple revolution -- The hardest thing to accept about ourselves -- Our most mind-like machines -- Hi, Robot -- Where technology and industry still need humanity -- The toll of a new machine -- Paying complements, and other smart strategies -- The match game : why platforms excel -- Do products have a prayer? -- That escalated quickly : the emergence of the crowd -- Why the expert you know is not the expert you need -- The dream of decentralizing all the things -- Are companies passé? (hint: no) -- Economies and societies beyond computation.

We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than those from corporate research laboratories. Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd.


English.

9780393254297 9780393254297: £22.99 0393254291 9780393356069 039335606X

99974447019

2017016682


Information technology--Economic aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Economic development--Technological innovations.

303.4833 / MCA