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Andrew McAfee

Andrew McAfee is a technology and business scholar focused on how digital tools, AI, automation, and platforms reshape companies and economies. A principal research scientist at MIT Sloan, he is known for Enterprise 2.0, The Second Machine Age, Machine, Platform, Crowd, and More from Less, which have influenced debates on digital transformation.

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Andrew McAfee’s path began in Indiana, where, by his own account, he was a bookish, math-camp-going child captivated by the first personal computers. MIT became the central setting of his education: he arrived in 1984, earned two bachelor’s and two master’s degrees, worked briefly, then left for Harvard Business School, where he completed a doctorate in business administration and spent about a decade on the faculty. His return to MIT in 2009 became the pivotal turn of his career, anchoring him as a principal research scientist and co-founder of the Initiative on the Digital Economy. ((https://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/forward-thinking/forward-thinking-on-how-geeks-are-changing-the-world-with-andrew-mcafee))

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A geek is anybody who gets properly obsessed with a really hard, deep problem
-Forward Thinking on how geeks are changing the world with Andrew McAfee
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Every innovation becomes a building block for subsequent innovations
-Welcome to the Hellabyte Era
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For the first time in human history, we have decoupled output growth from resource consumption
-Why economic growth hasn’t ruined the planet
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The trade-off between human prosperity and planetary health is in the rear-view mirror
-When less really is more
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If you have an objective benchmark and a tough problem, give it to the crowd
-How to approach the second machine age
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Most companies that we come across, I believe, are too fond of minds and human decision ability
-Why humans are essential to the second machine age
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When you give incredibly smart, tenacious, motivated people very powerful tools, they will do astonishing things
-MIT awards $1 million in third annual Inclusive Innovation Challenge
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Geek companies move faster, are a lot more egalitarian, give a great deal of autonomy, and try to settle their arguments via evidence
-New research from the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy

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"Andrew McAfee's The Geek Way outlines what has become a critical advantage for the United States, for Silicon Valley, and for many American companies"

Tyler Cowen

"In More from Less Andrew McAfee conclusively demonstrates how environmentalism requires more technology and capitalism, not less"

Marc Andreessen

"Andrew McAfee's optimistic and humane book documents a profoundly important and under-appreciated megatrend—the dematerialization of our economy"

Lawrence H. Summers

"Andrew McAfee's The Geek Way is the guidebook for understanding this shift and navigating these turbulent times"

Richard Florida

"Here, Andrew McAfee shows how these powerful forces are helping us make our planet better too, instead of degrading it"

Reid Hoffman

"Yet another magnificent contribution from Andrew McAfee"

Clayton M. Christensen

"Andy McAfee is a world-class intellectual provocateur"

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