Technology

By James Manyika, Michael Chui, Mehdi Miremadi, Jacques Bughin, Katy George, Paul Willmott, and Martin Dewhurst Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.

Dec 12, 2016, http://www.linkedin.com/pulse/universal-basic-income-peter-diamandis?trk=eml-email_feed_ecosystem_digest_01-hero-0-null&midToken=AQGrvB1hcZb7Ag&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=29KP9QwdFfPTw1 Some fear that robots and AI will steal our jobs. They probably will (in the near-term, at least half of them).

by Paul Daugherty, Dec 12, 2016 Technology is a key topic at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2017. Watch the session on Artificial Intelligence here. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the single most disruptive technology the world has seen since the Industrial Revolution. Granted, there is a lot of hype out there on AI,…

By Matikas Santos, Sara Isabelle Pacia INQUIRER.net, December 12, 2016 (Editor’s Note: As 2016 comes to a close, the Inquirer asks in its yearender series seven questions for the new year, considering key local and international events that shaped what many regard as one of the most turbulent years in modern times. This fourth part…

http://www.ozy.com/acumen/the-us-is-beating-china-on-the-factory-floor-this-is-why/71321?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10182016&variable=52af57bdb25c500ad0fe628fd8cf4052 When you think of manufacturing megapowers, one country immediately springs to mind: China. After all, that nation has maintained the lead in the manufacturing horse race since 2010. But that’s about to change — and in as little as four years. Another horse is making a play for first place:

Welcome to capitalism 2.0. At Amazon Go, a pilot store opening next year, customers check in with their phones, grab their items, and get billed to their Amazon accounts without standing in line or checking out. With Amazon reportedly planning thousands of grocery stores in the future, some speculate that the zero-human-interaction model could expand…

by David Katzmaier, December 5, 2016 7:21 AM PST @dkatzmaier It may look like shoplifting, but it’s actually Amazon’s latest real-world shopping experiment. “Four years ago we started to wonder: what would shopping be like if you could just walk into a store, grab what you wanted, and just go.” That’s how a new video…

By James Manyika, Dec. 2016 Automation, digital platforms, and other innovations are changing the fundamental nature of work. Understanding these shifts can help policy makers, business leaders, and workers move forward, writes James Manyika in a briefing note prepared for the Fortune + Time Global Forum in Vatican City.

By Kevin Maney, November 30, 2016, Bloomberg Next time you stop for gas at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you. Its life story can tell you a lot about the robot economy roaring toward us like an EF5 tornado on the prairie.

by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans and Avi Goldfarb, NOVEMBER 17, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/11/the-simple-economics-of-machine-intelligence?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=harvardbiz The year 1995 was heralded as the beginning of the “New Economy.” Digital communication was set to upend markets and change everything. But economists by and large didn’t buy into the hype. It wasn’t that we didn’t recognize that something changed. It was…

by Vegard KolbjørnsrudRichard AmicoRobert J. Thomas, Nov. 2, 2016 Read the article here.

by Daily Dose, October 24, 2016, http://www.ozy.com/pov/why-humankind-isnt-ready-for-the-bionic-revolution/72555?utm_source=dd&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=10242016&variable=52af57bdb25c500ad0fe628fd8cf4052 In the coming decades — probably sooner than most people realize — the next great wave of technological change will hit us. Its impact will be similar in scope to the advent of computers, cell phones and the internet. But it won’t be our gadgets being transformed; it…

by Scott David, 20 October 2016, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/wireless-earphones-fourth-industrial-revolution?utm_content=bufferfa6bf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer To think that the new Apple AirPods are just the latest iteration of headphones misses the point. As does the idea that they are about liberation from tangled white cords. Their significance is far greater than that. These are the first signs of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an…

CompTIA’s September jobs report reveals some grim statistics for IT pros: 142,000 jobs were lost last month. Tech sector growth slowed as well, but positions were still created rather than lost. By Brandon Vigliarolo, October 11, 2016 It’s not the best time to be an IT professional. Budgets are getting tight, cloud computing is making…

The Daily Dose, Jun 14, 2016 Because data is the competitive advantage that manufacturers will have in the future The author is director of product marketing for brilliant manufacturing software at GE digital.

A summit on AI and business is told starter roles in many industries will be automated by machine learning systems, while other experts urge caution against such predictions. By Nick Heath, May 5, 2016, Young people will bear the brunt of AI-fuelled job losses as smart systems undercut entry-level roles in everything from marketing to…

By Sanjena Sathian, January 6, 2016 Because redistribution of wealth can come in all shapes and sizes. Life at Jerry Kaplan’s home in Hillsborough, California, looks enviably comfortable: an automated gate, a stone fountain out front, a giant, Harry Potter–size chessboard in the side yard.