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科技發展日新月異，Google自動車已順利上路行駛逾萬哩，IBM超級電腦華生卓越的人工智能甚至擊退益智節目的參賽者。令人不禁開始思考，過往普遍認為只有人類才完成的事，例如診斷疾病、分析促進銷售等等，是否在不久的將來也會被機器取代？
有人稱二十世紀初的鋼鐵機械風格為「第一次機械時代」，而二十世紀末則是「第二次機械時代」。長期觀察與研究商業動態的麻省理工學院史隆管理學院教授Erik Brynjolfsso與Andrew McAfee以此為題，在新作《The Second Machine Age》中點出科技如何透過推陳出新的個人產品、先進的基礎建設來影響大眾生活。人類不一定只有被動接受的份，要主宰自己的未來生活，首先要意識到科技帶來的改變。接著，更重要的是從教育做起，讓人具備未來的經濟生存力。
眼前這場科技革命勢必徹底翻轉你我的生活，從律師到貨車司機都無人能置身事外，本書由科技、社會、及經濟三面向探討各式議題進程，帶你正面迎接未來。
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A revolution is under way.
In recent years, Google’s autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM’s Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies — with hardware, software, and networks at their core — will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human.
In The Second Machine Age MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee — two thinkers at the forefront of their field — reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives.
Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Professions of all kinds — from lawyers to truck drivers — will be forever upended. Companies will be forced to transform or die. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.
Drawing on years of research and up-to-the-minute trends, Brynjolfsson and McAfee identify the best strategies for survival and offer a new path to prosperity. These include revamping education so that it prepares people for the next economy instead of the last one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing power with human ingenuity, and embracing policies that make sense in a radically transformed landscape.
A fundamentally optimistic book, The Second Machine Age will alter how we think about issues of technological, societal, and economic progress.
