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

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."

Reading Time: 2 minutes Ants embed intelligence into their environment -- kind of like we do.

Reading Time: 1 minute When you actually use robots, you realize that there are places where they are not needed – or just annoy people.

Reading Time: 1 minute Shareholders are urging Amazon to use caution in licensing its Rekognition facial recognition technology to government agencies.

Reading Time: 2 minutes Sensors in personal devices will fuel an explosion of health data and machine learning-driven personalized healthcare advice.