CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS January 26, 2014 15:04:00
Managers, all played a large role in manufacturing a product. in the second machine age, the authors argue, we are starting to automate cognitive tasks. control, judgment, calibration. the machines are replacing human control and cognition. they can make more consistent decisions than can humans. and the effect is massively compounded because of new information technologies like big data. the result -- you don't need many people. you can see it in the numbers. general motors, when it was one of the world's biggest companies, employed around 600,000 americans. apple today, one of the world's ve...