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Andrew McAfee

Technology Commentator

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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  • Thursday, 5 May, 2016
    Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
    We should embrace robots, not fear them

    Technological progress offers enormous benefits to all of us, writes Andrew McAfee

    Thursday, 5 May, 2016
  • Tuesday, 22 December, 2015
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    For the least of these our brethren
    Tuesday, 22 December, 2015
  • Thursday, 5 November, 2015
    US Inequality
    A life without work can be fatal
    Thursday, 5 November, 2015
  • Thursday, 5 November, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    The deadly toll of boredom and vice
    Thursday, 5 November, 2015
  • Tuesday, 27 October, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Scale, science and sensors: when will the digital revolution reach healthcare?
    Tuesday, 27 October, 2015
  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    How technology is reducing our demands on the environment
    Tuesday, 29 September, 2015
  • Thursday, 10 September, 2015
    Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
    Taps not tips are the future for waiters

    Service has always been labour intensive but the technological barriers to automating it are falling

    Thursday, 10 September, 2015
  • Wednesday, 9 September, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Automated, but not antisocial — the restaurants of the future
    Wednesday, 9 September, 2015
  • Thursday, 27 August, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Yes, we are the product — but what’s the problem?
    Thursday, 27 August, 2015
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    Technology, unlike youth, is not wasted on the young
    Thursday, 13 August, 2015
  • Saturday, 1 August, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Why today’s Finland needs 18th-century France’s ‘super-smarts’ for economic growth
    Saturday, 1 August, 2015
  • Tuesday, 7 July, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Who are the humanists, and why do they dislike technology so much?
    Tuesday, 7 July, 2015
  • Tuesday, 16 June, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Technology is good economic news, not an enemy
    Tuesday, 16 June, 2015
  • Wednesday, 3 June, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    This time it feels different — fiction is closer to the truth than history
    Wednesday, 3 June, 2015
  • Friday, 15 May, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    How to reconcile great technology with lousy productivity
    Friday, 15 May, 2015
  • Thursday, 30 April, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Technology, deflation and secular stagnation
    Thursday, 30 April, 2015
  • Tuesday, 21 April, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Digital cameras are workable as a guard on the police
    Tuesday, 21 April, 2015
  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2015
    Capitalism
    Today’s luxury is tomorrow’s normality

    Tech progress makes initially expensive things cheaper, so hastens their spread

    Tuesday, 7 April, 2015
  • Tuesday, 7 April, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    What do the rich have now that will soon spread?
    Tuesday, 7 April, 2015
  • Friday, 27 March, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Digital innovations that managed to surprise at TED
    Friday, 27 March, 2015
  • Thursday, 12 March, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Back to basics with Old McDonald
    Thursday, 12 March, 2015
  • Thursday, 26 February, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    It seems nobody knows what’s going on with the economy
    Thursday, 26 February, 2015
  • Friday, 13 February, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Digital DIY is just getting started
    Friday, 13 February, 2015
  • Thursday, 29 January, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Defending the free market in Davos
    Thursday, 29 January, 2015
  • Thursday, 15 January, 2015
    Andrew McAfee
    Robots of the future are closer than they appear
    Thursday, 15 January, 2015
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