WTF? : What's the Future and Why It's up to Us / Tim O'Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Reilly, Tim, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Industries--Technological innovations.

Industries.

Employees--Effect of technological innovations on.

Employees.

Technological innovations--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

What's the future and why it's up to us

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Harper Business, [2017]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Silicon Valley's leading intellectual and the founder of O'Reilly Media explores the upside and the potential downsides of our future—what he calls the "next economy." Tim O'Reilly's genius is to identify and explain emerging technologies with world shaking potential—the World Wide Web, Open Source Software, Web 2.0, Open Government data, the Maker Movement, Big Data. "The man who can really can make a whole industry happen," according to Executive Chairman of Google Eric Schmidt, O'Reilly has most recently focused on the future of work—AI, algorithms, and new approaches to business organization that will shape our lives. He has brought together an unlikely coalition of technologists, business leaders, labor advocates, and policy makers to wrestle with these issues. In WTF he shares the evolution of his intellectual development, applying his approach to a number of challenging issues we will face as citizens, employees, business leaders, and a nation. What is the future when an increasing number of jobs can be performed by intelligent machines instead of people, or only done by people in partnership with those machines? What happens to our consumer based societies—to workers and to the companies that depend on their purchasing power? Is income inequality and unemployment an inevitable consequence of technological advancement, or are there paths to a better future? What will happen to business when technology-enabled networks and marketplaces are better at deploying talent than traditional companies? What is the future of education when on-demand learning outperforms traditional institutions? Will the fundamental social safety nets of the developed world survive the transition, and if not, what will replace them? The digital revolution has transformed the world of media, upending centuries-old companies and business models. Now, it is restructuring every business, every job, and every sector of society. Yet the biggest changes are still ahead. To survive, every industry and organization will have to transform itself in multiple ways. O'Reilly explores what the next economy will mean for the world and every aspect of our lives—and what we can do to shape it.

Contents:

Introduction: the WTF? economy

Part I: 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

Part II: Platform thinking

Networks and the nature of the firm

Thinking in promises

Government as a platform

Part III: 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

Part IV: It's up to us

Rewriting the rules

Supermoney

We don't have to run out of jobs

Don't replace people, augment them

Work on stuff that matters.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780062565723

0062565729

9780062565716

0062565710

OCLC:

1005351385