Andrew McAfee is a scientist, writer, and researcher at the forefront of exploring how the digital world impacts our present and our future. He is the codirector of the Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT, as well as principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His 2014 book, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, coauthored with Erik Brynjolfsson, was shortlisted for the Financial Times / McKinsey business book of the year award. He is also the author of Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation (2014), with George Westerman and Didier Bonnet; Race against the Machine (2011), also with Brynjolfsson; and Enterprise 2.0: How to Manage Social Technologies to Transform Your Organization (2009). His writing has also been featured in the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, Financial Times, and others. His latest book, written again with Brynjolfsson, is Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Revolution, which Kirkus called “provocative reading for futurists, investors, and inventors.”

TED Talk "What Will Future Jobs Look Like?"

Machine, Platform, Crowd review by Kirkus