Launched into the thought leadership stratosphere in 2014 with The Second Machine Age (with Erik Brynjolfsson).
Ranked in 2025.
Previously featured:
#8 (2023), 2021, #8 (2019), #12 (2017) and #26 (2015).
Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award, 2015 (with Erik Brynjolfsson).
“It’s those businesses that upgrade their human capital that will get the biggest benefits from machine learning.” – Brynjolfsson and McAfee.
Leaders of research into the implications of digital technology – in particular machine intelligence, big data, and the sharing economy – Brynjolfsson and McAfee assert that competition and labour are less important than collaboration, creativity, and networks, and their analysis shows how to rethink the integration of minds and machines, of products and platforms, and of the core and the crowd.
Andrew is the co-founder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and a principal research scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also the inaugural visiting fellow at the Technology and Society organisation at Google. Andrew’s work has featured in numerous publications including Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times and he has appeared on CNN and 60 Minutes, at the World Economic Forum, and TED. His latest book is The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results.
The Geek Way: The Radical Mindset that Drives Extraordinary Results (Little, Brown and Company, 2023); More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – and What Happens Next (Scribner, 2019); with Erik Brynjolfson: Machine Platform Crowd: Harnessing our Digital Future (WW Norton & Company, 2017); The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies (WW Norton & Company, 2014); and Race Against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy (Digital Frontier Press, 2011).
“A smart, irreverent, informative guide to navigating the future of work. Companies that don’t follow The Geek Way, according to author Andy McAfee, will fall behind… Each of these simple words contains more than you can know, until you read this remarkable book.”
Amy C. Edmondson, Thinkers50 twice-ranked #1
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