Andrew McAfee

Professor, research scientist

Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT, studies how digital technologies are changing business, the economy, and society. He is the coauthor of New York Times bestseller, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies was shortlisted for the Financial Times / McKinsey business book of the year award. He writes academic papers, a blog for the Financial Times, and articles for publications including Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Wall St. Journal, and The New York Times. He was educated at Harvard and MIT, where he is the co-founder of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.

Mission

Study how digital technologies are changing business, the economy, and society