The Vital Edge by Gideon Rosenblatt Work, society and the human experience in an era of machine intelligence.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to the era of the self-service platforms, automated monolithic machines wrapped in consumer-friendly branding.
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Autonomous Systems Unleashed
Reading Time: 6 minutes Autonomous systems generate feedback loops of machine learning and automation that predict, judge and act without human intervention.
Read More »The Robot Tax Fallacy: Anthropomorphizing Automation
Reading Time: 5 minutes 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.
Read More »How the Chatbot Changes Our Relationship with Organizations
Reading Time: 4 minutes The chatbot revolution won't just change the way we interact and communicate with organizations.
Read More »How Gig Economy Platforms Like Uber Will Automate Human Work
Reading Time: 4 minutes How Gig Economy platforms like Uber use technology to create jobs today that they will automate and eliminate tomorrow.
Read More »Six Building Blocks for a Virtual Personal Assistant
Reading Time: 8 minutes The Virtual Personal Assistant represents the biggest change in software in decades. Here are six building-block technologies that will make it possible.
Read More »The Bigger Amazon Story: How a Human Becomes an “Amabot”
Reading Time: 6 minutes When we relegate human labor to the work machines haven't yet learned, the results can be dehumanizing.
Read More »The Automation of the Publishing Industry
Reading Time: 15 minutes 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.
Read More »Our Antidotes to Technological Unemployment
Reading Time: 4 minutes Will our initiative and capacity for human connection be what saves us from technological unemployment in an era of intelligent machines?
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