Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

He is the author of several best-selling books with co-author Andrew McAfee, and one of the world’s most cited scholars in information systems and economics. Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of the best-selling The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future.

This book is the best explanation of those principles out there.” - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, executive chairman of Alphabet, Inc.“The digital revolution we’re entering can be unsettling, but McAfee and Brynjolfsson show how these incredibly powerful technologies will make our choices more important than ever. Nobody knows exactly how this future will unfold. “Even Silicon Valley is surprised by the speed and scope of change today. Machine Platform Crowd is a road map for leaders to make wise choices as they navigate this new world.” - Arianna Huffington, former president and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, author of Thrive and The Sleep Revolution<

For startups and established businesses, or for anyone interested in what the future holds, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading.. 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.In the tradition of agenda-setting classics like Clay Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma, McAfee and Brynjolfsson deliver both a penetrating analysis of a new world and a toolkit for thriving in it. 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

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