The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
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Among other things, they found that the number of words in English increased by more than 70 percent between 1950 and 2000
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Hemingway’s quote about how a man goes broke: “Gradually and then suddenly.”5
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Technological progress is going to leave behind some people, perhaps even a lot of people, as it races ahead
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digitization is going to bring with it some thorny challenges.
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the transformations brought about by digital technology will be profoundly beneficial ones.
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Digitization is improving the physical world, and these improvements are only going to become more important
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We also consume information from books and friends, entertainment from superstars and amateurs, expertise from teachers and doctors, and countless other things that are not made of atoms
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we’re at an inflection point—a point where the curve starts to bend a lot—because of computers. We are entering a second machine age.
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The first is that we’re living in a time of astonishing progress with digital technologies—those that have computer hardware, software, and networks at their core
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mental power is at least as important for progress and development—for mastering our physical and intellectual environment to get things done—as physical power. So a vast and unprecedented boost to mental power should be a great boost to humanity, just as the ealier boost to physical power so clearly was.