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

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

Four Futures

Visions of the World After Capitalism By Peter Frase It is easier to imagine the end of the world,' the theorist Fredric Jameson has remarked, 'than to imagine the end of capitalism.' 'Jacobin' Editor Peter Frase argues that technological advancements and environmental threats will inevitably push our society beyond capitalism, and 'Four Futures' imagines just how this might look. Extrapolating possible futures from current changes the world is now experiencing, and drawing upon speculative fictions to illustrate how these futures might be realized, 'Four Futures' examines communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism-or in other words, the socialisms we may reach if a resurgent Left is successful and the barbarisms we may be consigned to if those movements fail. Publisher : London : Verso, 2016 ISBN : 9781781688137, 1781688133

Whiplash

How to Survive Our Faster Future By Joichi Ito This "brilliant and provocative" (Walter Isaacson) guide shares nine principles to adapt and survive the technological changes shaping our future from the director of the MIT Media Lab and a veteran Wired journalist. The world is more complex and volatile today than at any other time in our history. The tools of our modern existence are getting faster, cheaper, and smaller at an exponential rate, transforming every aspect of society, from business to culture and from the public sphere to our most private moments. The people who succeed will be the ones who learn to think differently. In WHIPLASH, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe distill that logic into nine organizing principles for navigating and surviving this tumultuous period: Emergence over Authority Pull over Push Compasses over Maps Risk over Safety Disobedience over Compliance Practice over Theory Diversity over Ability Resilience over Strength Systems over Objects Filled with incre...

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