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Managing The Mindset the SeCond MaChine age datacentered.nl Future managers will need to use their Management in the creativity to challenge the constraints to both Second Machine Age commercial success and social welfare. by- Tim Laseter Managers must become entrepreneurial again: Number crunching computers will replace number-crunching managers. he developed world stands at the their latest book, The Second Machine cusp of a major transformation Age (W.W. Norton, 2014). They Tunlike anything experienced chronicle the advance of Moore’s law since the Gilded Age. That period (the (the seemingly inexorable doubling of name was coined by Mark Twain and microprocessor power every 1.5 to two his neighbor Charles Dudley Warner in years over the last half-century) as it their 1873 satire of the times) offered yields technological advances such as immense economic expansion and autonomous cars that easily conquer wealth creation in the United States, but the complex task of driving. it also led to a major disruption in the More importantly, the authors note occupational mix of the citizenry and that respected scholars as recently as an associated set of social upheavals. 2004 had highlighted driving as an buildersmerchantsjournal.net while laborers shifted from farms to computers and inherently requiring example of a task too complicated for Entrepreneurs built colossal businesses human capacity. Even a casual scan factories. of the traditional media uncovers Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew further examples of this ferocious McAfee of MIT have coined a new term for the coming era in the title of progress, including robots that can PG 116 Built Expressions Vol: 3 Issue: 11 November 2014