Race Against The Machine

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1. qntmfredDec 2019
   The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford

   Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

   The War on Normal People by Andrew Yang

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2. jimsojimDec 2016
   Deep work by Cal Newport, great book on how to develop intense focus to be creative/get more done. Highly recommended.

   Race Against The Machine - a concise and informative discussion of the impact of technology on employment, income distribution and macro economics. Highly recommended as well.

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3. SharpSightLabsNov 2016
   1. Race Against the Machine by Brynjolfsson and McAfee

   2. The Second Machine Age by Brynjolfsson and McAfee

   3. The Lights in the Tunnel by Martin Ford

   4. Rise of the Robots by Martin Ford

   5. Average is Over by Tyler Cowen -specifically, the parts about labor market bifurcation and man-machine pairs

   Brynjolfsson and McAfee are MIT economists. Top notch. Cowen is also an excellent economist at George Mason.

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4. FuturebotOct 2015
   The articles reference studies and books which have the data. See work by Ford, Autor, Acemoglu, Autor, Brynjolfsson. If you want to read just one thing which has plenty of data, read the book "Race against the machine" - they talk all about the studies used to come to their conclusions:

   http://raceagainstthemachine.com/

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5. digitalengineerAug 2014
   "Race against the Machine" is actually a good book about the topic: "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.

   "...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."

   http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-The-Machine-Accelerating-...

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6. ryanongMay 2014
   This is a really awesome book that explains what that it is and how it might work.

   Race Against the Machine,

   by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

   http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-The-Machine-Accelerating-...

   It has some ideas on how to get from where we are to there. I think the philosophies of Race Against the Machine and Capital in the 21st century are pretty insightful and the truth may be somewhere in between the two.

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