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Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Industries -- Technological innovations.
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O'Reilly, Tim.
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Industries -- Technological innovations.
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
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WTF : what's the future and why it's up to us / Tim O'Reilly.
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O'Reilly, Tim.
Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2017.
Call #:
338
.064
O66w
Subjects
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.
Industries -- Technological innovations.
Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on.
Technological innovations -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9780062565716 (hc.)
Alternate title:
What's the future and why it's up to us
What is the future and why it's up to us
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
xxvi, 419 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-406) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: the WTF? economy -- Part I: Using the right maps -- Seeing the future in the present -- Toward a global brain -- Learning from Lyft and Uber -- There isn't just one future -- Part II: Platform thinking -- Networks and the nature of the firm -- Thinking in promises -- Government as a platform -- Part III: A world ruled by algorithms -- Managing a workforce of djinns -- "A hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree" -- Media in the age of algorithms -- Our Skynet moment -- Part IV: It's up to us -- Rewriting the rules -- Supermoney -- We don't have to run out of jobs -- Don't replace people, augment them -- Work on stuff that matters.
Summary:
"WTF? can be an expression of amazement or an expression of dismay. In today's economy, we have far too much dismay along with our amazement, and technology bears some of the blame. In this combination of memoir, business strategy guide, and call to action, Tim O'Reilly, Silicon Valley intellectual and founder of O'Reilly Media, explores the upside and the potential downsides of today's WTF technologies. What is the future when an increasing number of jobs can be performed by intelligent machines instead of people, or done only by people in partnership with those machines? What happens to our consumer based societies - to workers and to the companies that depend on their purchasing power? Is income inequality and unemployment an inevitable consequence of technological advancement, or are there paths to a better future? How should companies organize themselves to take advantage of these new tools? What’s the future of education when on-demand learning outperforms traditional institutions? How can individuals continue to adapt and retrain? Will the fundamental social safety nets of the developed world survive the transition? How today's world-spanning platforms and networks, on-demand services, and artificial intelligence are changing the nature of business, education, government, financial markets, and the economy as a whole. How all the parts of modern digital businesses work together to create marketplace advantage and customer value, and why ultimately, they cannot succeed unless their ecosystem succeeds along with them"--Provided by publisher.
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