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The Fall of Google+
The disastrous Google+ shutdown vividly demonstrates the risks of trusting our creations and relationships to big corporations.
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Humans are the Heart of Synthetic Intelligence
A merger between humans and machines is coming, and it’s not what you might think.
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Technology Ecology: Connections that Sculpt Our World
Technology ecology focuses on technology’s relationships with other technologies, with people, with organizations and with the planet.
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The Interest Graph Maps Our Connections to Ideas and Things
The Interest Graph is software for connecting us to our interests. Today, it makes us better shoppers. Tomorrow, it could change the nature of work.
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Intelligent, Automated Self-Service
Automated self-service is Silicon Valley’s trick for automating the service economy and for fueling machine learning and the knowledge economy.
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The Six Levels of the Engagement Pyramid
The Engagement Pyramid is a framework for building relationships and engagement for mission-driven organizations.
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How Organizations Create Intrinsic Value
Organizations create intrinsic value by building meaning for customers and employees.
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When Machines Know: The Evolution of Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence
A look at the relationship between knowledge and artificial intelligence in an era when machines may soon break our monopoly on knowing.