Andrew McAfee is co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management, studying the ways information technology affects businesses and business as a whole. His latest book written with Erik Brynjolfsson is Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. Their 2014 book The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey business book of the year award. He writes academic papers, a blog for the Financial Times, and articles for publications including the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He’s talked about his work on The Charlie Rose Show and 60 Minutes, at TED, Davos, the Aspen Ideas Festival, and in front of many other audiences.

Twitter: @amcafee

Future Shock! Kim Taipale, Executive Director of the Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology policy, is joined by Arun Sundararajan, NYU Stern Professor and author of the upcoming book The Sharing Economy, and Andrew McAfee, Co-Director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and author of The Second Machine Age.

John Dennehy, ‘Andrew McAfee: it’s amazing how bad machines are at common sense’, The National, 31 January 2018

Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee

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