The Innovation Ultimatum

Index

Note: Page numbers followed by f refer to figures.

A

• Abundant robotics, 60
• Active exoskeletons, 231
• ActiveLink, 231
• Adaptive learning, 262
• Additive manufacturing, 248
• Adobe, 128
• Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 247
• Aero, 196
• Aging population, 168
• Agreement machine, Blockchain as, 69–71
• Agriculture. See also Farming
  • automation in, 129
  • jobs in, 149
  • robots in, 59–61
• Agrobot, 59
• AI, see Artificial intelligence
• AIME (Artificial Intelligence in Medical Epidemiology), 169
• Aion, 72
• AirBNB, 80, 83
• Airbus, 7, 115, 192, 196
• Aircraft, 196
• Air-traffic-control, for drone and robot traffic, 65
• AIST (Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), 247
• Alibaba, 78, 203, 206
• Alignment, organizational, 265–267
• Allen Institute, 28
• Alphabet, 46, 116, 170
• AlphaGo, 18, 19
• Amazon:
  • apps for voice services of, 33
  • autonomous delivery by, 217
  • and autonomous vehicles, 186
  • data spirals built by, 147
  • fees and payments on, 78
  • frictionless checkouts with, 202–203
  • home shopping with, 209
  • impact of, 68
  • job application triage at, 34
  • physical stores of, 202
  • as planet's largest retailer, 156, 200
  • planned satellite constellation of, 115
  • retraining of workforce by, 162
  • robots at, 58
  • tech and infrastructure investment by, 210
• Amazon Alexa, 12, 29, 33
• Amazon Echo, 204, 209
• Amazon Go stores, 202–203
• Amazon Mechanical Turk, 28
• Amazon Scout robot, 217
• Amazon Web Services, 83
• Ambient intelligence, 37
• Ambrosus, 219
• American Express, 14, 76
• American family, 46
• Analytics:
  • in decision-making, ...