Machine Platform Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future - Tapa dura

"... a reliable guide to the most relevant technologies that will shape the future of business..." -- Business books to recommend - Financial Times "For startups and established businesses, or for anyone interested in what the future holds, Machine, Platform, Crowd is essential reading." -- Five of the Best Business Books to Read in 2018 - The Gentleman's Journal "Whether technology is moral or not, it is still changing the world-and business-in ways we are barely aware of, as Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson show in fascinating detail in Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future." -- Books of 2017 - Supply Management "In their latest book, Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson encourage you to adopt a much more global vision in order to enhance your digital transformation, which, in their opinion, must rest on 3 key trends: machine, platform, and crowd." -- 10 unmissable books from 2017 - Business Digest "Throughout, they [McAfee and Brynjolfsson] are eloquent and informed... This is a long and complex book, but it is important." -- People Management "Machine, Platform, Crowd is a forward-looking take on how business will interact with artificial intelligence and what that will mean for the transformation of industries." -- Business Books of the Year 2017 - The International New York Times "... Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson [use] their deep knowledge of the business and technology sectors to build a detailed, cogent and conversational guide to where we are and where we are going. The story is warmly and richly told... and amply supported by notes, references and links. This book is in many senses a primer, a thorough grounding for the digital warrior in the driving forces of the 21st-century economy." -- Book of the Week - Times Higher Education "For an astute romp through important digital trends, Machine, Platform, Crowd is hard to beat." -- The Economist "The two academic authors from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who became the pin-up boys of the Davos crowd for their previous book on The Second Machine Age (2014), do a neat job of scanning the technological horizon and highlighting significant landmarks. This is a clear and crisply written account of machine intelligence, big data and the sharing economy." -- Financial Times "Machine, Platform, Crowd, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson. Following on from The Second Machine Age in 2014, the authors are back with this title that analyses a new world of work and offers a toolkit on how to survive in it." -- FT business books of the month: June 2017 - Financial Times

Andrew McAfee is the co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and co-author of the best-selling The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future. He and co-author Erik Brynjolfsson are the only people named to both the Thinkers 50 list of the world's top management thinkers and the Politico 50 group of people transforming American politics. Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and Schussel Family Professor of Management Science at the MIT Sloan School. He is the author of several best-selling books with co-author Andrew McAfee, and one of the world's most cited scholars in information systems and economics.