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The second machine age

Education — Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Techno [Books]
Educationest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 49.9 · 2/4
49.9
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
34
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 34 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
34 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 34 probesavg response 1775 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
amazon.fr
edge
direct origin
server
Server
Tranco rank
#609
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The second machine age's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 49.9 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 2 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
A New Eartheducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
The Power of Concentrationeducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live
Hidden Figureseducationsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
You Are the Universe:educationsimilar100%0.00.0■ inactive
Triggerseducationsimilar100%40.0+9.6● live
Kelly: More Than My Share of It Alleducationsimilar100%16.00.0→ redirected
American Girlseducationsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
Phantoms in the Braineducationsimilar100%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternatives2
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:04Z200amazon.frServer1306alive
2026-08-26 09:36Z200amazon.frServer1648alive
2026-08-19 13:58Z200amazon.frServer2027alive
2026-08-11 00:33Z200amazon.frServer2233alive
2026-08-08 06:26Z200amazon.frServer2295alive
2026-08-05 18:46Z200amazon.frServer2549alive
2026-07-30 18:00Z200amazon.frServer1906alive
2026-07-23 09:20Z200amazon.frServer1173alive
2026-07-22 09:23Z200amazon.frServer1142alive
2026-07-21 09:24Z200amazon.frServer2475alive
2026-07-20 09:52Z200amazon.frServer2244alive
2026-07-19 09:03Z200amazon.frServer1754alive
2026-07-18 08:44Z200amazon.frServer733alive
2026-07-17 09:05Z200amazon.frServer1364alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The second machine age · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-second-machine-age-2 · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.