About the book
Tim O'Reilly's mix of memoir, business strategy and call to action takes its title from a phrase that can signal either amazement or dismay at new technology. The founder of O'Reilly Media weighs what happens to work when intelligent machines take on more jobs, or share them with people, and what that means for consumer economies, inequality and unemployment. He considers what happens to business if networks and marketplaces come to deploy talent better than traditional companies, along with on demand learning and the future of social safety nets. He also explains the methods he used across four decades to spot technologies such as open source software, Web 2.0, the Maker Movement and AI.
Eric Ries called it an important look at how technology can build a better future, written by one of the sharpest thinkers on the subject.
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Eric Ries (Founder/Long-Term Stock Exchange)
An important examination on how technology can shape a better future by one of the smartest thinkers on the subject.
Cristina Riesen (Founder/We Are Play Lab)
I am reading Tim O' Reilly's "What's the Future and Why It Is Up to Us" as the future of humanity and technology is one of topics I am very passionate about. As Tim says: "the future that we can imagine shouldn't be a dystopian vision of robots that are wiping us out, of climate change that is going to destroy our society. It should be a vision of how we will rise to the challenges that we face in the next century, that we will build an enduring civilization, and that we will build a world that is better for our children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. It should be a vision that we will become one of those long-lasting species rather than a flash in the pan that wipes itself out because of its lack of foresight".
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