Andrew McAfee

MIT Center for Digital Business

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Principal research scientist at the MIT Center for Digital Business and co-author of Race against the Machine: How the Digital Revolution is Accelerating Innovation, Driving Productivity, and Irreversibly Transforming Employment and the Economy

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