AI, MIT, book: "Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future"

Top 5 companies by value (and many others)
are all  based on "digital platforms"...

among others:
autonomous machine learning  vs human programmers...

Amazon.com: Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future (9780393254297): Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson: Books

"Andrew McAfee was educated at Harvard and MIT, where he is the associate director of the Center for Digital Business."
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future - Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson - Google Books

podcast interview with the authors: 

Machine Over Mind In A New Economy | On Point

"Robots moving deeper into the American workplace—how much decision-making will we turn over to machines?"
MACHINE, PLATFORM, CROWD by Andrew McAfee , Erik Brynjolfsson | Kirkus Reviews

"Provocative reading for futurists, investors, and inventors."

Future Tense book event on Machine, Platform, Crowd. @Slate

previous book from same authors:

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies: Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee: 9780393350647: Amazon.com: Books

Videos:

2017-03 Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future - YouTube

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future - YouTube

Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, "Machine, Platform, Crowd" - YouTube