Uma grande iniciativa de pesquisa da Sloan School of Management do MIT
Breve pesquisa
Race Against The Machine:
Como a revolução digital está a acelerar a inovação, produtividade, conduzindo e transformando de forma irreversível o emprego e a economia
Erik Brynjolfsson - Diretor, MIT Center for Digital Business
Andrew McAfee - Diretor Associado, MIT Center for Digital Business
Jan 2012
Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy
2012
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/0984725113/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
Why has median income stopped rising in the US?
Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly?
Why are our economy and society are becoming more unequal?
A
popular explanation right now is that the root cause underlying these
symptoms is technological stagnation-- a slowdown in the kinds of ideas
and inventions that bring progress and prosperity. In Race Against the Machine,
MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee present a very different
explanation. Drawing on research by their team at the Center for Digital
Business, they show that there's been no stagnation in technology -- in
fact, the digital revolution is accelerating. Recent advances are the
stuff of science fiction: computers now drive cars in traffic, translate
between human languages effectively, and beat the best human Jeopardy!
players.
As these examples show, digital technologies are
rapidly encroaching on skills that used to belong to humans alone. This
phenomenon is both broad and deep, and has profound economic
implications. Many of these implications are positive; digital
innovation increases productivity, reduces prices (sometimes to zero),
and grows the overall economic pie.
But digital innovation
has also changed how the economic pie is distributed, and here the news
is not good for the median worker. As technology races ahead, it can
leave many people behind. Workers whose skills have been mastered by
computers have less to offer the job market, and see their wages and
prospects shrink. Entrepreneurial business models, new organizational
structures and different institutions are needed to ensure that the
average worker is not left behind by cutting-edge machines.
In Race Against the Machine
Brynjolfsson and McAfee bring together a range of statistics, examples,
and arguments to show that technological progress is accelerating, and
that this trend has deep consequences for skills, wages, and jobs. The
book makes the case that employment prospects are grim for many today
not because there's been technology has stagnated, but instead because
we humans and our organizations aren't keeping up.
http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/0984725113/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
*para ler em inglês sobre o livro, acessar:
http://ebusiness.mit.edu/research/Briefs/Brynjolfsson_McAfee_Race_Against_the_Machine.pdf
*para ler em português sobre o livro, acessar:
INÍCIO
Nenhum comentário:
Postar um comentário