Politics and Policy in a Second Machine Age

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Mike talks to Professor Andrew McAfee, Co-Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Sloan School of Management. Professor McAfee's work has appeared in numerous academic and popular publications, including the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He is the author of a number of books, including The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (co-authored with Erik Brynjolfsson).Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. And welcome to the politics guys with your host, Jay Carson and Michael Baranowski.
0:17.3	Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:23.6	My guest today is Professor Andrew McAfee.
0:26.4	Professor McAfee is the co-director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technologies
0:30.3	Initiative on the Digital Economy and the Principal Research Scientist at MIT Sloan School of Management.
0:36.6	His work has appeared in numerous
0:38.5	academic and popular publications, including the Harvard Business Review, the Economist,
0:43.8	the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He's the author of a number of books, including
0:48.5	The Second Machine Age, Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a time of Brilliant Technologies, co-authored with Eric Brinjolfson.
0:58.0	Professor McCaffee, welcome to the show.
1:01.1	Thanks for having me on.
1:02.5	So I was hoping we could start by talking about why you wrote the Second Machine Age.
1:07.4	What did you see going on around you or what big issues or problems did you want to
1:12.6	address with the book?
1:15.3	We wrote the second machine age because we kept on getting surprised by examples of technological
1:22.5	progress that we saw. And these examples were not just showing up in labs at MIT. That's where science fiction
1:29.1	stuff is supposed to happen. But they were happening out there in the real economy. And things like
1:35.0	Google's announcement in 2010 that it had been driving completely autonomous cars on American roads
1:42.2	in traffic without killing anybody were pretty amazing to us
1:45.9	because just five or six years earlier, we thought that was not going to happen for a very,
1:51.7	very long time.
1:52.7	When Watson beat the Human Jeopardy champion in 2011, that was pretty amazing.
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