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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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    • Sunday, 25 July, 2021
      Technology sector
      EU proposals to regulate AI are only going to hinder innovation

      Start-ups using artificial intelligence will find themselves at the sharp end of new rules

    • Thursday, 26 July, 2018
      Erik Brynjolfsson
      Machine learning will be the engine of global growth

      Harnessing the power of AI means changing longstanding practices and assumptions

    • Sunday, 13 August, 2017
      FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
      Business Book of the Year 2017 — the longlist

      Titles about the relentless march of technology dominate the FT/McKinsey annual prize

    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      When artificial intelligence is bad news for the boss

      A new book by the authors of ‘The Second Machine Age’ suggests that digital disruption is coming to the corner office

    • Thursday, 22 September, 2016
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      Review — ‘The Wealth of Humans’, by Ryan Avent

      Technology will change how we work and we must explore social welfare policy, says author

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2016
      Technology sector
      #techFT – Meet the cobots
    • Thursday, 5 May, 2016
      Technology sector
      We should embrace robots, not fear them

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

    • Wednesday, 6 April, 2016
      Robotics
      How to robot-proof your children’s careers

      Experts say a rethink of education is needed to keep humans employed

    • Tuesday, 22 December, 2015
      Climate change
      For the least of these our brethren
    • Wednesday, 18 November, 2015
      FT & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
      A bleaker view of our automated future comes to the fore

      Winning title ‘The Rise of the Robots’ is dystopian bookend to ‘The World is Flat’, on top in 2005

    • Friday, 6 November, 2015
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      Free Lunch: The underemployment epidemic Premium content

      Mortality resurgent in America’s white working class

    • Thursday, 5 November, 2015
      Technology sector
      A life without work can be fatal

      White, middle class adults are killing themselves deliberately and inadvertently, quickly and slowly

    • Thursday, 5 November, 2015
      Technology sector
      The deadly toll of boredom and vice
    • Tuesday, 27 October, 2015
      Technology sector
      Scale, science and sensors: when will the digital revolution reach healthcare?
    • Tuesday, 29 September, 2015
      US downturn
      How technology is reducing our demands on the environment
    • Thursday, 10 September, 2015
      Technology sector
      Future restaurant waiters will respond to taps instead of tips

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

    • Wednesday, 9 September, 2015
      US downturn
      Automated, but not antisocial — the restaurants of the future
    • Thursday, 27 August, 2015
      Technology sector
      Yes, we are the product — but what’s the problem?
    • Thursday, 13 August, 2015
      US downturn
      Technology, unlike youth, is not wasted on the young
    • Saturday, 1 August, 2015
      Technology sector
      Why today’s Finland needs 18th-century France’s ‘super-smarts’ for economic growth
    • Tuesday, 7 July, 2015
      Technology sector
      Who are the humanists, and why do they dislike technology so much?
    • Tuesday, 16 June, 2015
      Technology sector
      Technology is good economic news, not an enemy
    • Monday, 15 June, 2015
      Gavyn Davies' blogGavyn Davies
      The greatest unknown — the impact of technology on the economy
    • Wednesday, 3 June, 2015
      Technology sector
      This time it feels different — fiction is closer to the truth than history
    • Friday, 15 May, 2015
      US downturn
      How to reconcile great technology with lousy productivity
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