Erik Brynjolfsson is a professor at MIT and a director at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy. His research interests include the impact of information technology on economic activity, and he is also interested in how digital technologies affect the distribution of income and other features of economic life. His research has been recognized by several awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and a John Bates Clark Medal. He is a co-author of Inventing the Internet: A History of the Global Network from 1945 to 2000, which won the 2003 Book Award for History from Foreword Magazine
He is also co-founder of Infonomics, Inc., a company that has developed a software platform for understanding and harnessing big data. He was born in Goteborg, Sweden.
Computers get better faster than anything else ever.Erik Brynjolfsson
The heart of science is measurement.Erik Brynjolfsson
Electricity is an example of a general purpose technology, like the steam engine before it. General purpose technologies drive most economic growth, because they unleash cascades of complementary innovations, like lightbulbs and, yes, factory redesign.Erik Brynjolfsson
