Next Economy - O’Reilly

We’re charting a course from the tech-driven economy of today to the “next” economy that strikes a better balance between people and automation.

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Checking Jeff Bezos’s Math

Stakeholder Capitalism Deserves Clearer Metrics

Iterative competition is a catalyst for better problem solving

Kaggle is more than a machine learning competition platform; it’s a facilitator for efficient problem solving and a community for sharing and learning.

Use technology to do what you do better

Innovation has the power to change industries, but new technology doesn’t always mean you need a new business model.

How to get things done in a large organization

Matt Cutts shares what he’s learned from working at Google and the U.S. Government.

Balance your ecosystem to succeed at business

O’Reilly President Laura Baldwin discusses O’Reilly’s approach to running its business.

What is O’Reilly Radar?

Radar spots and explores emerging technology themes so organizations can succeed amid constant change.

Gradually, then suddenly

Technological change often happens gradually, then suddenly. Tim O'Reilly explores the areas poised for sudden shifts.

The future of work goes beyond the predictions of the World Economic Forum

The World Economic Forum’s 2018 jobs report limits research to a narrow range of the workforce.

Shaping the stories that rule our economy

The economy we want to build must recognize increasing the value to and for humans as the goal.

What’d I miss?

Tim O'Reilly reflects on the stories from 2017 that played out after he finished writing his new book.

WTF? What’s the future and why it’s up to us

Tim O'Reilly says entrepreneurs need to set their sights on how we can use big data, sensors, and AI to create amazing human experiences and the economy of the future.

5 tips for succeeding at digital transformation

The biggest challenges for companies trying to reinvent themselves come from an inability to imagine a different way of doing things.

“Wall Street made me do it”

We have to change the incentives that encourage companies to choose boosting their stock price over investing in people and the real economy.

Media in the age of algorithms

The problem of fake news and bad sites trying to game the system is an industry-wide problem — companies should share data and best practices in the effort to combat it.

What will AI make possible that’s impossible today?

If we let machines put us out of work, it will be because of a failure of imagination and a lack of will to make a better future. (Full text, video, and slides from Tim O'Reilly's talk at the White House Frontiers Conference.)

A conversation with Google DeepMind cofounder Mustafa Suleyman

Google DeepMind's deep learning approach produces surprising results, demonstrating not just vast recall or the ability to compute faster than any human, but what many people would consider real creativity.

The Information: A conversation with Jessica Lessin

Jessica Lessin outlines the business model behind The Information and explains why she wants to build a business that lasts.

Will bots replace lawyers?

Joshua Browder has been working to replace exploitative lawyers—mainly the ones charging hundreds of dollars for copying and pasting documents—with chatbots.