Driverless cars, neural networks, computer diagnostics of diseases, the use of Big Data in a variety of areas of human activity... The authors of this book, engineers and scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, compare the rapid development of digital technologies that we see today with the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century century - the first “age of machines”. The Industrial Revolution marked the beginning of the modern world, the second era of machines is also creating a new world before our eyes: all social structures and economic principles will be revised, technology will radically change literally every aspect of our lives.