How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Automate Food Distribution
The coronavirus pandemic will radically accelerate automated self-service in the food sector.
Automated Self-Service
Automated Fast Food Experiences Growing Pains—But Its Rise is Inevitable
Despite recent setbacks, automated self-service and fast food are on a collision course.
What’s the Difference Between the Front-End and Back-End of Automated Self-Service?
Automated self-service is the front-end, automated self-service interface combined with the back-end, automated service operations.
Automated Self-Service is Taking Over. Here’s How it Happened.
The seeds of our primary interface with machine intelligence rest in the humble origins of the vending machine. Here is the brief story of this evolution of self-service.
What the Online Grocery Wars Really Mean: Automation
The online grocery wars are heating up and the stakes are far bigger than any battle between Amazon and Walmart. The real story here is the automation of grocery stores and the service economy more broadly.
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.
McDonald’s New Bid to Supersize You
McDonald’s new machine learning acquisition could well put the company in Amazon’s crosshairs.
Autonomous Systems Unleashed
Autonomous systems generate feedback loops of machine learning and automation that predict, judge and act without human intervention.
The Automation of the Publishing Industry
An in-depth look at the automation of the publishing industry: what it’s done to businesses, to employment and what it means for the future of knowledge.