Opening Keynote: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies | CXO Summit 2017

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We are living in a time of brilliant technologies: cars that drive themselves; Jeopardy!-champion supercomputers; cheap, flexible, and useful robots; algorithms that make better decisions than humans; and countless others. They are bringing us into a second machine age, the greatest era of transformation since the Industrial Revolution. In his talk, Professor McAfee will discuss both the great promise and thorny challenges — for organizations, leaders, and workers alike — of the world we're creating as we develop and deploy digital technologies that are the stuff of science fiction.