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WTF : what's the future and why it's up to us / Tim O'Reilly.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: eng Publisher: New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017]Edition: First EditionDescription: xxvi, 419 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062565716
  • 0062565710
  • 9780062699558 (International edition)
  • 0062699555 (International edition)
Other title:
  • What's the future and why it's up to us
  • What is the future and why it is up to us
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338/.064 23
LOC classification:
  • HC 79  O66w 2017
Contents:
Introduction: the WTF? economy -- Part I: Using the right maps -- Seeing the future in the present -- Toward a global brain -- Learning from Lyft and Uber -- There isn't just one future -- Part II: Platform thinking -- Networks and the nature of the firm -- Thinking in promises -- Government as a platform -- Part III: A world ruled by algorithms -- Managing a workforce of djinns -- "A hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree" -- Media in the age of algorithms -- Our Skynet moment -- Part IV: It's up to us -- Rewriting the rules -- Supermoney -- We don't have to run out of jobs -- Don't replace people, augment them -- Work on stuff that matters.
Summary: Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.
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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HC 79 O66w 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000140107

Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-406) and index.

Introduction: the WTF? economy -- Part I: Using the right maps -- Seeing the future in the present -- Toward a global brain -- Learning from Lyft and Uber -- There isn't just one future -- Part II: Platform thinking -- Networks and the nature of the firm -- Thinking in promises -- Government as a platform -- Part III: A world ruled by algorithms -- Managing a workforce of djinns -- "A hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree" -- Media in the age of algorithms -- Our Skynet moment -- Part IV: It's up to us -- Rewriting the rules -- Supermoney -- We don't have to run out of jobs -- Don't replace people, augment them -- Work on stuff that matters.

Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.

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