It no longer makes sense, for example, to hire a full-time programmer, put aside office space, and pay benefits, when you can instead pay one of the world’s best programmers, like Hansson, The Owners The ace programmer David Heinemeier Hansson provides an example of the second group that Brynjolfsson and McAfee predict will thrive in our new economy: “superstars.” High-speed data networks and collaboration tools like e-mail and virtual meeting software have destroyed regionalism in many sectors of knowledge work. Tyler Cowen summarizes this reality more bluntly: “The key question will be: are you good at working with intelligent machines or not? 80 20 Rule Relationships The Superstars Advances such as robotics and voice recognition are automating many low skilled positions, but as these economists emphasize, “other technologies like data visualization, analytics, high-speed communications, and rapid prototyping have augmented the contributions of more abstract and data-driven reasoning, increasing the values of these jobs.” In other words, those with the oracular ability to work with and tease valuable results out of increasingly complex machines will thrive.

Click Here To Download The Book As Pdf Formate ( 9Mb )īrynjolfsson and McAfee call the group personified by Nate Silver the “high-skilled” workers.

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