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DESCRIPTION:KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents: \n\nThe Future Is Here\nErik Brynjolfsson & 
 Andrew McAfee\n"The Second Machine Age:  Work, Progress, and Prosperity In 
 a Time of Brilliant Technologies"\nHosted by Brian Edwards-Tiekert\n\n$12 
 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/539815 :: 
 800-838-3006  \nor Pegasus (3 locations), Marcus Books, Moe's, Walden Pond, 
 Diesel a Bookstore, Mrs. Dalloway's Books,  SF: Modern Times,  $15 door, 
 KPFA benefit   www.kpfa.org/events 
 \n.............................................................................................\nAs 
 life inevitably changes around us, tension grows, our worries multiply. How 
 will we work in the future? How will we live? Exactly who will prosper in 
 this brave new digital epoch unfurling around us?  These are the sort of 
 questions MIT investigators Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee consider in 
 their new study, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a 
 Time of Brilliant Technologies.  The authors are predominately hopeful, 
 even exhilarated by the new inventions on the horizon - futuristic entities 
 that will unarguably have the power to profoundly transform our daily 
 lives.  What prompts such optimism? Will robots increasingly steal our 
 jobs?  Will they reduce or simply eliminate our livelihoods?  What radical 
 changes should we expect for our planet, and our vulnerable human bodies. 
 \n\nThe authors, both MIT research scientists, argue that we must learn to 
 race with the new machines by using our human ingenuity in mixing and 
 matching the varying new technologies. They identify what they claim are 
 the best strategies for doing this. Are they right? Is science our 
 savior?\n\nErik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Center for Digital 
 Business.  Andrew McAfee is a principal research scientist at the MIT 
 Center for Digital Business.  Together they wrote Race Against the Machine: 
 How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving 
 Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/05/18748809.php
SUMMARY:The Future Is Here: Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
LOCATION:Berkeley Hillside Club\n2286 Cedar St\nBerkeley, CA 
 94709\n510-848-3227\nhttp://www.hillsideclub.org
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/01/05/18748809.php
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