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Andrew McAfee

MIT Scientist, author, entrepreneur, geek

Andrew McAfee is a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-founder and co-director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy, and the inaugural Visiting Fellow at the Technology and Society organization at Google. He studies how technological progress changes the world. His book, The Geek Way, was published by Little, Brown in 2023. His previous books include More from Less and, with Erik Brynjolfsson, The Second Machine Age.

McAfee has written for publications including Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. He’s talked about his work on CNN and 60 Minutes, at the World Economic Forum, TED, and the Aspen Ideas Festival, with Tom Friedman and Fareed Zakaria, and in front of many international and domestic audiences. He’s also advised many of the world’s largest corporations and organizations ranging from the IMF to the Boston Red Sox to the US Intelligence Community.

Visit website: https://www.andrewmcafee.org/

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Private land-grant research university

Details last updated 02-Jun-2025

Andrew McAfee Creations

More from Less

Amazon

The surprising story of how we learned to prosper using fewer resources - and what happens next, written by Andrew McAfee