Central Park: Government as a platform, in action
It's time to recognize that it's not government versus the market—government and our market system are the ultimate public-private partnership.
Next Economy
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.
What should Alexa do?
The success of the Amazon Echo’s speech interface shows there's an opportunity for someone to build a completely new mobile operating system.
The great question of the 21st century: Whose black box do you trust?
Algorithms shape choice not just for consumers but for businesses.
Tim O’Reilly: How smart managers should use artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence isn't just about replacing humans with computers; the best managers will find ways to use AI to augment their workers. In this video, a compilation of clips from the O'Reilly Next:Economy Summit 2015, Tim O'Reilly talks with AI leaders who see an essential role for humans in the AI-enabled world.
Intelligent agents, augmented reality, and the future of productivity
Tim O'Reilly sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella for a frank discussion about his vision for Microsoft and how that vision is playing out.
What would Alexa do?
Alexa shows what’s possible when conversational interfaces just work.
The UK needs to double down on the GDS, not dismantle it
The British have a way of turning their backs on their greatest innovations.
GE’s digital transformation
Jeff Immelt on GE’s investments in big data, brilliant factories, and the industrial Internet, and the role of humans in the industrial economy of the 21st century.
The game of business: It’s time to rewrite the rules
Our current economic rules encourage the allocation of gains to consumers and financial shareholders, and the losses to workers and taxpayers. It doesn’t have to be that way.
Don’t replace people. Augment them.
If we let machines put us out of work, it will be because of a failure of imagination and the will to make a better future.
Machine money and people money
A conversation about Universal Basic Income with John Maynard Keynes and Paul Buchheit.
Technology and business as if people matter
Announcing the second annual Next:Economy Summit.
Why 2016 is shaping up to be the Year of the Bot
A survey of the bot landscape and the opportunities it affords the Next:Economy.
“This is strictly a business decision”
We have to stop telling ourselves that we are forced by the market to outsource jobs—we have a choice.
What passes for sharing these days
The "sharing economy" has nothing at all to do with sharing.
6 things to look for in Next:Economy companies
How to spot a Next:Economy company.
Choice bits from Next:Economy 2015, Day 2
Speakers at the Next:Economy Summit explored the future of business and work. Check out highlights from the second day of the event.
Choice bits from Next:Economy 2015, Day 1
The Next:Economy Summit was packed with explorations of “What’s the future of business and work?” Take a look at this short compilation of some of our favorite moments from the first day.
Platform economies
A conversation with Erik Brynjolfsson & Jon Bruner
Optimizing between motivation and coordination
Albert Wenger on the reorganization of the economy through networks.
Escaping the superstar syndrome
Sports show us the impact a superstar can have on the success of a team. But it's the team with the most superstars that wins.
Building an automated future
Our fears of automation aren’t due to problems of artificial intelligence, but of human intelligence.
Serving workers in the gig economy
Emerging resources for the on-demand workforce.
Stories, not transactions
Salesforce's Peter Coffee discusses the new economy.