Taped by WGBH Forum Network, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, visited the Brattle Theater in Harvard Square to discuss their new book, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, with host Meghna Chakrabarti.

Brynjolfsson and McAfee talk about the future of technology from self-driving cars to robots doing middle-class jobs.  They also refer to themselves as optimists when it comes to the future – that technology won’t be taking all the jobs, rather that society will adapt.

This talk took place on February 3, 2014 at 6:00 p.m.