MIT Experts Discuss the Shifting Frontier of Mind and Machine
More intelligent machines and robots are here. They drive, they work in factories, they solve problems and they care for patients. Some will take over our traditional jobs; many will become intrinsic...
View ArticleEven Sweatshops are Getting Automated. So What’s Left?
Comparison of Nike’s successive sustainability reports reveals that the company used 106,000 fewer contract employees around the world in 2013 than 2012 (a greater than 9% drop), even as both profits...
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The New Millennium’s Downward Ramp of Jobs
Recent research continues to shed light on the big trends in the US labor market. Unfortunately, many if not most of them are bad news. As Thomas Edsall describes well in his latest New York Times...
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Re-slicing the Economic Pie in the Second Machine Age
As we enter the Second Machine Age, the power of computers will be pushed far beyond current boundaries and limitations. As a result, we will see just how much automation can complement-- and how much...
View ArticleA Useful Framework for Analyzing the Impact of Technology on Jobs
Previously, I discussed a recent Pew Research report on the impact of AI, robotics and other advanced technologies on the future of jobs. The report was based on the responses of nearly 1,900 experts...
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Universities and Entrepreneurship: The Perfect Match?
In today’s digital age, everyone wants to be an entrepreneur—to start their own business instead of working for someone else. It’s cool. It’s appealing, and according to Bill Aulet, Managing Director,...
View ArticleA Surprising Entrepreneurship Paradox
Last month, I discussed the recent MIT Second Machine Age Conference, an event inspired by the best-selling bookof the same title published earlier this year by MIT’s Erik Brynjolffson and Andy McAfee....
View ArticleBrynjolfsson, McAfee Bring 2MA Ideas to London Event
The April 10 MIT IDE event in London was brimming with ideas and multimedia discussions based on the topic of The Second Machine Age, the book written by IDE co-founders Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Digital Capital Economy
I just read an interesting article that was published last summer in Foreign Affairs - New World Order: Labor, Capital, and Ideas in the Power Law Economy. The article was written by MIT professor...
View ArticleEurope’s Digital Dilemma: How to Get Ahead of the Economic Curve
Most MIT IDE faculty and researchers are optimistic that workers and the U.S. economy will adapt--and eventually prosper--in the face of huge digital disruption. However, that enthusiasm was tempered...
View ArticleSummertime Blues or Second Machine Age Ramifications?
In case you were on a well-deserved -- and hopefully paid -- vacation this month without your news feeds buzzing, it was a busy time for digital economy news. Media, such as Huffington Post, wrote...
View ArticleAutomated, but Not Antisocial — the Restaurants of the Future
Even though a quinoa-based vegetarian bowl is not my idea of the ideal workday lunch, I’m excited to check out the restaurant Eatsa the next time I’m in San Francisco. Because there aren’t any people...
View ArticleScale, Science and Sensors: When Will the Digital Revolution Reach Healthcare?
I conduct phone interviews using Skype because it’s easy to record decent-quality audio that way, but it turns out that the program’s video features also come in handy. When I was interviewing Chris...
View ArticleThe Deadly Toll of Boredom and Vice
How bad is a life without work? I’ve been asked this question a lot lately. It’s becoming pretty clear that the two forces of globalization and technological progress are reshaping economies and...
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Humans, Machines and the Digital Economy Spark Davos Debates
The societal benefits as well as the challenges of the digital economy were underscored by MIT IDE speakers at several panels during the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. As part of a...
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