Sunday, March 23, 2014
Technology
What is technology doing to us? Between the digital skeptics and the wide-eyed utopians sit the authors of The Second Machine Age, two MIT scholars with an interest in consensus and moderation. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, both at the university’s Center for Digital Business, realized that things were moving way faster than even they would have predicted. Just as the Industrial Revolution saw machines replacing human brawn, the second machine age sees them replacing our cognitive faculties. These two, whose previous book, Race Against the Machine, took a cautionary look at the way computers, software development, and artificial intelligence were making human beings obsolete, now describe themselves as cautiously optimistic.
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In many ways, software development and computers are actually improving the human way of life. It gives us a different perspective on things but at the same time we have new problems to address.
ReplyDeleteMobile applications are also solving some of the issues that we are facing. They might also be creating new ones.
ReplyDeleteSoftware development is enabling us to do things that we could never have imagined of doing. It is important that the revolution continues.
ReplyDeleteit seems as if the new software development is not revolutionary, just improving on what already exists. The leap before were much bigger.
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