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A review by ashrafulla
Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee
3.0
This book has decent value for price. By that I mean I was at first unhappy with how short it was but it's only $5 used on Amazon Kindle. The book also has good value. Largely written as a PhD thesis, the book talks about how technology has affected the placement of people. Some have been left behind, some have benefited, and others have exploited. However, the authors' take is that it is a mistake to try to stymie technology or to try to prop up displaced humans. Instead, humans need to "race with technology" by using technology to advance their own life.
The sell for this take is very good, identifying first the actual trend of displacement and then the possible reasons why. As a result, the argument is well-founded. The authors don't try to disprove others as much as identifying what others got right, which of course the authors then use to build their argument.
Because the book is short, the book is missing depth in some of the arguments. Most notably at the end, their Nineteen Theses could each have used more data-backed evidence. That's the kind of depth that I expect from these books.
Quoting the book is almost like giving the book away, but the book is as accessible as a common thinkpiece. So if you want to spend $5 on an article, this is a decent article.
The sell for this take is very good, identifying first the actual trend of displacement and then the possible reasons why. As a result, the argument is well-founded. The authors don't try to disprove others as much as identifying what others got right, which of course the authors then use to build their argument.
Because the book is short, the book is missing depth in some of the arguments. Most notably at the end, their Nineteen Theses could each have used more data-backed evidence. That's the kind of depth that I expect from these books.
Quoting the book is almost like giving the book away, but the book is as accessible as a common thinkpiece. So if you want to spend $5 on an article, this is a decent article.