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The Second Machine Age

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Arnold Kling

That is the latest from Brynjolfsson and McAfee. I have just started it. Here is one quote.

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power–the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments–what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

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