The Vital Edge by Gideon Rosenblatt Work, society and the human experience in an era of machine intelligence.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Fitbit's latest watch is available exclusively through healthcare partners, raising questions about who is watching you exercise.

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the end, the smart home wars will be decided by business models, and Amazon is best positioned to win.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Through the coordination and combination of what were formerly disconnected parts, a greater intelligence emerges.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Nike's new self-lacing shoes will connect us to the cloud with a service tether.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Book notes from Ryan Avent's "The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century."

Reading Time: 2 minutes As Boeing introduces increased intelligence into its plane assembly processes, it dramatically reduces the need for human quality control.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Our investments of time and energy on the big web giants erode our power.

Reading Time: 5 minutes McDonough and Braungart have been saying for years, that "waste equals food." Or, put into business terms, "waste equals opportunity."