Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

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Summary

• eBook: 416 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 0393254291 ISBN-13: 978-0393254297 From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leader’s guide to success in a rapidly changing economy.

• 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 corporate research labs.

• MIT’s 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.

• In all three cases, the balance now favors the second element of the pair, with massive implications for how we run our companies and live our lives.