Andrew McAfee

From the authors of the best-selling The Second Machine Age, a leader’s guide to success in a rapidly changing economy. We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs. In...

We live in strange times. A machine plays the strategy game Go better than any human; upstarts like Apple and Google destroy industry stalwarts such as Nokia; ideas from the crowd are repeatedly more innovative than corporate research labs. MIT's Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson know what it takes to master this digital-powered shift: we must rethink the integration of...

Climate change is threatening our world. How are you responding? Heat waves, flooding, extreme storms, harsh winters—the effects of climate change are only getting worse. How can you ensure your organisation is taking the right steps to mitigate this threat, and what can you, as an individual, do to help? These articles by experts and researchers will help you understand...

Leading Digital makes the provocative argument that the next imminent phase of digital technology adoption—driven by the convergence of mobility, analytics, social media, cloud computing, and embedded devices—will make everything that's happened so far look like a prelude. The authors, a trio of highly regarded thought leaders on corporate digital transformation, say changes in the digital realm so far have...

Economist Best Books of the Year Financial Times Business Book of the Month A handbook for disruptors - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google We're living in a time of amazing technological innovation, but we're not paying enough attention to one of the most important innovations of all - one that's going to be a wellspring of progress for a...

Web3 may be the next big disrupter in business. Don't be caught unprepared. Blockchain and crypto aren't just for speculators anymore—they're the backbone of the rising decentralised internet. Web3 has the potential to rewrite the past decade's rules: monopolies may be shattered, the web could be remade, and an entirely new breed of products and services will likely emerge. Where...

In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human. In The...

In recent years, Google's autonomous cars have logged thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the best human Jeopardy! players. Digital technologies—with hardware, software, and networks at their core—will in the near future diagnose diseases more accurately than doctors can, apply enormous data sets to transform retailing, and accomplish many tasks once considered uniquely human. In The...