Notes from When Machines Do Everything

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[Marina Zabelshansky]

Suggestion for book club:

WTF?: What's the Future and Why It's Up to Us

by Tim O'Reilly

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: October 2017

ISBN: 9780062565716

Topic: 

• Innovation

 

Book Description

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.

Regards, Marina Zabelshansky
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TOC for O'Reilly's book:

Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Dedication
4. Contents
5. Introduction: The WTF? Economy
6. Part I: Using the Right Maps
   1. 1   Seeing the Future in the Present
   2. 2   Toward a Global Brain
   3. 3   Learning from Lyft and Uber
   4. 4   There Isn’t Just One Future
7. Part II: Platform Thinking
   1. 5   Networks and the Nature of the Firm
   2. 6   Thinking in Promises
   3. 7   Government as a Platform
8. Part III: A World Ruled by Algorithms
   1. 8   Managing a Workforce of Djinns
   2. 9   “A Hot Temper Leaps O’er a Cold Decree”
   3. 10   Media in the Age of Algorithms
   4. 11   Our Skynet Moment
9. Part IV: It’s Up to Us
   1. 12   Rewriting the Rules
   2. 13   Supermoney
   3. 14   We Don’t Have to Run Out of Jobs
   4. 15   Don’t Replace People, Augment Them
   5. 16   Work on Stuff That Matters