<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 0393239355 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> Race Against the Machine </Td> </Tr> <P> The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies is a 2014 book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee which is a continuation of their book Race Against the Machine . They argue that the Second Machine Age involves the automation of a lot of cognitive tasks that make humans and software - driven machines substitutes, rather than complements . They contrast this with what they call the "First Machine Age", or Industrial Revolution, which helped make labor and machines complementary . </P> <P> Some examples that the book cites include "software that grades students' essays more objectively, consistently and quickly than humans" and "news articles on Forbes.com about corporate earnings previews"--"all generated by algorithms without human involvement ." </P>

According to the authors what phase of the second machine age are we currently in