A new book The Second Machine Age: Work Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, of MIT's Center for Digital Business is making a splash.

The authors predict that digital technologies will soon take over many more jobs "once considered uniquely human," with a devastating impact on the labor market, unless people get ready for it. Intelligent technologies are developing at such a pace that they will soon take over the more routine, automatic tasks done by people ranging from lawyers and doctors to truck drivers.

One of the authors of this book, Andrew McAfee, talks his message on TED: