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Power and progress : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity

text Power and progress : our thousand-year struggle over technology and prosperity

Summary
Artificial intelligence and other innovative technologies won't guarantee a rising standard of living for workers, according to this lucid manifesto. MIT economists Acemoglu and Johnson explore historical instances of new technology failing to pay... Read more
Contents

What is progress? -- Control over technology -- Canal vision -- Power to persuade -- Cultivating misery -- A middling sort of revolution -- Casualties of progress -- The contested path -- Digital damage -- Artificial struggle -- Democracy breaks -- Redirecting technology.

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Description
vii, 546 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Publisher
PublicAffairs 2023

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 303.48 ACE in New Non-fiction Reshelving

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