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

by Erik Brynjolfsson

economy now includes many examples of both types of company. Crowdsourced

three of Voltaire’s “great evils,” and so should be encouraged by policy, regulation, incentives like the ETIC, and other available levers.

This is encouraging, but that same month there were nearly 4.5 million Americans who had been out of work for at least twenty-seven weeks.32 Comparisons like this strongly suggest that crowdsourcing does not yet play a significant role in reducing unemployment and bringing work to the economy as a whole.