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Published: Thursday December 29 2016The MIT scientist, co-author of the bestselling book on The Second Machine Age, discusses the impact of digital technologies on work, the economy and society, and how human beings should adapt as the pace of change accelerates.What led you to set up the Initiative on the Digital Economy at MIT’s business school?My colleague Erik Brynjolfsson and I co-founded the Initiative because we felt that there was a need to study how technological progress was...

Published: 28th December 2016Download issue:Humankind is moving from an information age to the age of intelligent machines, with consequences for the world of work, the economy and society. The transition is driven by the explosion in the amount of digital data that is now available, artificial intelligence (AI) programmes that can analyse the data for the benefit of humanity, and intelligent robots that are able to work independently.The Winter 2016 edition of Pictet Report includes a talk...