Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity, by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, 560 pp., $32) Is progress good? Despite the subjective nature of the ...

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have written a long, eloquent book arguing that technological progress is a decidedly mixed bag. They believe that the power of the state can and should be used to ...

Does technology advance higher education? This question seems ridiculous to those of us who work in educational technology and online learning. Of course, technology pushes higher education forward.

In the new book "Power and Progress: Our 1,000 Year Struggle Over Technology & Prosperity," Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson look at how technology has too often benefited the elite few and not the ...

Part 1, Digital Inequality Series: Economist and MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu questions in his latest book, Power and Progress, whether artificial intelligence (AI) and other rapidly developing ...

The historic struggle between workers and the technology that could put them out of a job The last year has seen headlines of hope and outright fear around the rapid development of artificial ...

In Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity, economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson argue that technological developments like indoor plumbing, electric ...