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By Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee

A revolution is less than manner. lately, Google's independent automobiles have logged hundreds of thousands of miles on American highways and IBM's Watson trounced the simplest human Jeopardy! avid gamers. electronic applied sciences with undefined, software program, and networks at their middle will within the close to destiny diagnose illnesses extra thoroughly than medical professionals can, observe huge, immense facts units to rework retailing, and achieve many projects as soon as thought of uniquely human.

In The moment desktop Age MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers on the vanguard in their field—reveal the forces riding the reinvention of our lives and our financial system. because the complete effect of electronic applied sciences is felt, we'll detect monstrous bounty within the kind of fabulous own expertise, complicated infrastructure, and near-boundless entry to the cultural goods that increase our lives.

Amid this bounty can also be wrenching switch. Professions of all kinds—from legal professionals to truck drivers—will be ceaselessly upended. businesses could be pressured to rework or die. contemporary monetary symptoms mirror this shift: fewer individuals are operating, and wages are falling at the same time productiveness and earnings soar.

Drawing on years of analysis and up to the moment traits, Brynjolfsson and McAfee determine the easiest innovations for survival and provide a brand new route to prosperity. those contain revamping schooling in order that it prepares humans for the following economic system rather than the final one, designing new collaborations that pair brute processing strength with human ingenuity, and embracing regulations that make experience in a extensively remodeled landscape.

A essentially positive publication, The moment computer Age will adjust how we expect approximately problems with technological, societal, and monetary development.

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A subscripted index behind a comma stands for partial derivative with respect to the corresponding contravariant coordinate. Finally, g'f and gii are respectively the contravariant and covariant coordinates of the metric tensor g. Equations (20) to (25) are non-dimensional equations. f Cp ref T rer Locally monoclinic coordinate system In order to derive the compressible, laminar, boundary-layer equations, attention has to be paid to the coordinate system used. Since boundary-layer theory is based upon the property that the advection occurs mainly parallel to the surface and the diffusion in the direction normal to the wall, the coordinate system used must reflect these features in order to perform the order-of-magnitude analysis.

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E. the curvature tends towards infinity as e: tends towards zero. 3. O(K) > 0 (~) : The flow can be considered as "curvature dominated", the extreme case being the corner flow for K -+ 00. As the wall normal direction varies rapidly, the concept of preferred direction which is the baseline of boundary-layer theory is no longer valid. Such cases can be treated with PNS approaches which are out of scope here. The matched asymptotic expansions approach, as presented in chapter I, deals with the first case but not with the second and third ones.

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