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Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
- By: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 82
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Story4 out of 5 stars 82
Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today’s artificial intelligence — has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, social respect, cultural prominence, and further political voice for those already powerful. For most of the rest of us, there is the illusion of progress.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A different take on Technology’s impact
- By Ricardo Ernst on 07-23-23
- Power and Progress
- Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity
- By: Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Technology fatalist
Reviewed: 06-04-23
Interesting anecdotes but lacking a powerful insight. Machine is the enemy of the uneducated so redirect technology from automation?
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