Sinopsis:
`An indispensable guide.' Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn`Tech's most valuable teacher.' ForbesSilicon 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 organisation that will shape our lives., He has brought together an unlikely coalition of technologists, business leaders, labour 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's 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
Críticas:
"Tim O’Reilly has been at the cutting edge of the Internet since it went commercial." (New York Times)
"A punchy and provocative book . . . What’s The Future is an insightful and heartfelt plea, daring us to reimagine a better economy and society . . . A jaunty read with a compelling narrative of how technology interweaves with the real world." (Financial Times)
"O’Reilly’s ability to quickly identify nascent trends is unparalleled." (Wired)
"Silicon Valley’s leading intellectual." (Inc.)
"One of the most influential pioneers and thinkers of the internet age." (Observer)
"Tech’s most valuable teacher." (Forbes)
"The ultimate tech industry thought leader." (Scientific American)
"The man who can really can make a whole industry happen." (Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google)
"If people want ideas about the future, they should look to O’Reilly to point them out." (Newsweek)
"For anyone who wants to know how to prepare for the future – and how we might shape that future in ways that broadly benefit society, not just technological or entrepreneurial elites – WTF? is an indispensable guide." (Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn)
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