HBR's 10 Must Reads on AI, Analytics, and the New Machine Age

AI and data analytics are powering a wave of technological innovations--understand them, cut through the hype, and seize the opportunities. If you read nothing else on how intelligent machines are revolutionizing business, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you see how these new technologies fit together, understand what's coming next, and prepare your company now. In this book you will learn about how: - Data analytics and AI are yielding insights at an unprecedented rate - Machine learning is reinventing management and reshaping the workforce - Unmanned vehicles are evolving from toys into tools - 3-D printing is moving beyond rapid prototyping to industrial production at scale - Augmented reality is transforming both manufacturing and retail experiences - AI assistants and smart speakers are grabbing territory between customers and brands - A broadly coordinated rollout of blockchain could reshape economies.

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press, [2019]

ISBN: 9781633696846, 1633696847

We Are Data

Algorithms and the Making of Our Digital Selves By John Cheney-Lippold We are Data" explores what identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it. Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and purchase, algorithms determine the news we get, the ads we see, the information accessible to us and even who our friends are. These complex configurations not only form knowledge and social relationships in the digital and physical world, but also determine who we are and who we can be, both on and offline. Algorithms create and recreate us, using our data to assign and reassign our gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status. They can recognize us as celebrities or mark us as terrorists. In this era of ubiquitous surveillance, contemporary data collection entails more than gathering information about us. Entities like Google, Faceboo...

To Be A Machine

Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death By Mark O'Connell "A globe-spanning investigation into the Transhumanist movement, considering the tech billionaires, scientific luminaries, and DIY body-hackers attempting to prolong, improve, and ultimately transcend the limits of human life" Publisher : New York : Doubleday, [2017] ISBN : 9780385540414, 0385540418

The Future of the Professions

How Technology Will Transform the Work of Human Experts By Richard Susskind, Daniel Susskind This book predicts the decline of today's professions and describes the people and systems that will replace them. In an Internet society, according to Richard Susskind and Daniel Susskind, we will neither need nor want doctors, teachers, accountants, architects, the clergy, consultants, lawyers, and many others, to work as they did in the 20th century. The Future of the Professions explains how 'increasingly capable systems' - from telepresence to artificial intelligence - will bring fundamental change in the way that the 'practical expertise' of specialists is made available in society. The authors challenge the 'grand bargain' - the arrangement that grants various monopolies to today's professionals. They argue that our current professions are antiquated, opaque and no longer affordable, and that the expertise of the best is enjoyed only by a few. In their pla...

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