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Andrew McAfee

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Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at MIT. His 2014 book Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (co-authored with Erik Brynjolfsson) was a New York Times bestseller and shortlisted for the FT and McKinsey business book of the year award.

He is the co-founder of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, and previously held positions as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and as a professor at Harvard Business School.

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