An indispensable guide' Reid Hoffman co-founder of Linked In Tech's most valuable teacher' Forbes Silicon Valley's leading intellectual & the founder of O' Reilly Media explores the upside & the potential downsides of our future
- what he calls the next economy' Tim O' Reilly's genius is to identify & explain emerging technologies with world shaking potential
- the World Wide Web Open Source Software Web 20 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 & new approaches to business organisation that will shape our lives He has brought together an unlikely coalition of technologists business leaders labour advocates & 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 & 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 & to the companies that depend on their purchasing power? Is income inequality & unemployment an inevitable consequence of technological advancement or are there paths to a better future? What will happen to business when technology-enabled networks & 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 & if not what will replace them? The digital revolution has transformed the world of media upending centuries-old companies & business models Now it is restructuring every business every job & every sector of society Yet the biggest changes are still ahead To survive every industry & organisation will have to transform itself in multiple ways O' Reilly explores what the next economy will mean for the world & every aspect of our lives
- & what we can do to shape it