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Machine, platform, crowd : harnessing our digital future /

"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 w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McAfee, Andrew (Author), Brynjolfsson, Erik (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Information technology > Economic aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Economic development > Technological innovations.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect économique.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect social.
Développement économique > Innovations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Strategic Planning.
Technischer Fortschritt.
Digitalisierung.
Künstliche Intelligenz.
Innovationspotenzial.
Technischer Fortschritt
Digitalisierung
Künstliche Intelligenz
Innovationspotenzial
Table of Contents:
  • The triple revolution
  • 1. Mind and machine, The hardest thing to accept about ourselves ; Our most mind-like machines ; Hi, Robot ; Where technology and industry still need humanity
  • 2. Product and platform. The toll of a new machine ; Paying complements, and other smart strategies ; The match game: why platforms excel ; Do products have a prayer?
  • 3. Core and crowd. 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.