The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

by Erik Brynjolfsson

the best way to use new technologies is usually not to make a literal substitution of a machine for each human worker, but to restructure the process.

offshoring is often only a way station on the road to automation.

work to improve the skills of ideation, large-frame pattern recognition, and complex communication

take advantage of self-organizing learning environments,

three key motivations from the research literature: mastery, autonomy, and purpose.