Andrew McAfee Quotes

United States, Businessman
1967

Andrew Paul McAfee is co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management, studying the ways information technology (IT) affects businesses and business as a whole.

Also known as Director

Our world is increasingly complex, often chaotic, and always fast-flowing. This makes forecasting something between tremendously difficult and actually impossible, with a strong shift toward the latter as timescales get longer.

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- World
- Difficult
- Chaotic
Just in the past couple years, we've seen digital tools display skills and abilities that ... eat deeply into what we human beings do for a living.

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Good decisions are critical to well-functioning societies.

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The world is one big data problem.

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- World
- Problem
- Data
The changes are coming so quickly it's been difficult for workers to retrain themselves and for entrepreneurs to figure out where the next opportunities may be. The catalyst is something called computer learning or artificial intelligence - the ability to feed massive amounts of data into supercomputers and program them to teach themselves and improve their performance.

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Don’t anthropomorphize computers—they hate it.

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Electrification was one of the most disruptive technologies ever; in the first decades of the twentieth century, it caused something close to a mass extinction in US manufacturing industries.

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Another huge advantage that humans have is good old common sense.

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- Human
- Sense
- Advantage

Sometimes ones man's creativity is another machine's brute force analysis.

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I’ve found that the book’s fundamental concept—that capitalism and tech progress are now allowing us to tread more lightly on the earth instead of stripping it bare—is hard for many people to accept.

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