Race Against the Machine
by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
The short 2011 essay that preceded The Second Machine Age: digital technology outpacing workers' skills and what to do. Brief and prescient.
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Three things you will actually use
- Race with machines, not against.
- Skills must keep pace.
- Organizations lag technology.
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