WTF : what's the future and why it's up to us /

Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: O'Reilly, Tim
Published: Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
Publisher Address: New York, NY :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
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Summary: Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.
Carrier Form: xxvi, 419 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-406) and index.
ISBN: 9780062565716
0062565710
9780062699558
Index Number: HC79
CLC: F403.6
Call Number: F403.6/O667
Contents: Introduction: the WTF? economy --
Using the right maps --
Seeing the future in the present --
Toward a global brain --
Learning from Lyft and Uber --
There isn't just one future --
Platform thinking --
Networks and the nature of the firm --
Thinking in promises --
Government as a platform --
A world ruled by algorithms --
Managing a workforce of djinns --
"A hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree" --
Media in the age of algorithms --
Our Skynet moment --
It's up to us --
Rewriting the rules --
Supermoney --
We don't have to run out of jo