Speakers Andrew McAfee: Management theorist
Andrew McAfee studies how information technology affects businesses and society.
Why you should listen to him:
Andrew McAfee studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses, business as a whole, and the larger society. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves and compete. At a higher level, his work also investigates how computerization affects competition, society, the economy and the workforce.
He's a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His books include Enterprise 2.0 and Race Against the Machine (with Erik Brynjolfsson). Read more on his blog.
Quotes by Andrew McAfee
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“Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that … eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.”
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“Within [our lifetimes], we're going to transition into an economy that … doesn't need a lot of human workers. Managing that transition is going to be the greatest challenge that our society faces.”
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Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?
- 14:07 Posted: Sep 2012
Andrew McAfee on the Web
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Conferences
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- TEDxBoston 2012