Recasting the Machine Age
Recasting the Machine Age

Author: Howard P. Segal

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Introduction: Henry Ford, centralization, and decentralization -- Henry Ford's village industries: origins, contexts, rationales -- Decentralized technology in the village industries: scale, scope, system, vision -- Farm and factory united -- Buildings and workforce -- Administration and relationship to local communities -- Workers' experiences -- Unionization -- The decentralists and other visionaries -- American industry also preaches decentralization -- Decline of the village industries during World War II and after -- Contemporary renewal of the village industries in high-tech America -- Conclusion: Henry Ford evolves from mechanical to social engineer -- Appendix: basic facts about and present status of the nineteen village industries.

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies

Author: Erik Brynjolfsson

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2014-01-20

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0393239357

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The big stories -- The skills of the new machines : technology races ahead -- Moore's law and the second half of the chessboard -- The digitization of just about everything -- Innovation : declining or recombining? -- Artificial and human intelligence in the second machine age -- Computing bounty -- Beyond GDP -- The spread -- The biggest winners : stars and superstars -- Implications of the bounty and the spread -- Learning to race with machines : recommendations for individuals -- Policy recommendations -- Long-term recommendations -- Technology and the future (which is very different from "technology is the future").