How the Stock Market Extracts Wealth
How the stock market extracts value from corporations and fuels the concentration of wealth.
Automation
The Essence of Automation
Automation is ancient technology that, when fused with artificial intelligence, will utterly transform the economy and our place in the world.
Automated Service Platforms and the Future of Work
Automated service platforms don’t just lead to large-scale unemployment in the services economy; they also redefine the nature of work.
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.
Autonomous Systems Unleashed
Autonomous systems generate feedback loops of machine learning and automation that predict, judge and act without human intervention.
The Robot Tax Fallacy: Anthropomorphizing Automation
What is the right way to tax a robot? A robot tax isn’t the same as a tax on human labor. Here’s why it’s more complicated than that.
Corporate Artificial Intelligence: Can Investors Control a “Perfect Profit Machine”?
As corporations automate, might the artificial intelligence of a “perfect profit machine” simply decide to stop distributing profits to human owners?
How Are We Going to Learn Faster?
Humanity is under growing pressure to learn faster. What will learning look like in the decades ahead?
How Gig Economy Platforms Like Uber Will Automate Human Work
How Gig Economy platforms like Uber use technology to create jobs today that they will automate and eliminate tomorrow.