A review by md313
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson

slow-paced

0.0

A terrible book that is an embarrassment to Stanford and MIT, the Universities that employee these "professors". This book feels like a high school assignment that had to meet a particular word count. Full of non-original research, poor historical contextualization, and zero innovative thought, this book wastes the time of the reader. I'd say it killed too many trees, but I got the audio version and was still a waste of digital download space and electrons to transfer the information. So why does it suck? 1) Extra words to make it the "acceptable" length of a book. For instance, at one point the authors explain the game show Jeopardy. Over and over they do this. 95% of their audience already knows 90% of the "information" in this book. 2) Nothing original. In fact, at the end of the book they readily  admit they don't really have any new arguments to propoae. 3) Theyconflate analogies as argument; outlier past examples as evidence of future trends. This book is a waste of time.