What’d I miss?
Tim O'Reilly reflects on the stories from 2017 that played out after he finished writing his new book.
Every industry and every organization will have to transform itself in the next few years, in multiple ways, or fade away.
Ideas
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.)
The great question of the 21st century: Whose black box do you trust?
Algorithms shape choice not just for consumers but for businesses.
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.
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.
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Topic image: Market before a Large City on a Lake 1820
(source: Wilhelm von Kobell, 1820).
“Every industry and every organization will have to transform itself in the next few years, in multiple ways, or fade away.”
— Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media