The Vital Edge

When We Converse with the Alien Intelligence of Machines

Artificial Intelligence, collaboration, FeatureMachineIntelligence, life, machineintelligence, spotlight

Machine intelligence will teach us to expand our understanding of intelligence.

The Key to Creating Value in Business

customer mission, m!, mission, service, spotlight, value

The key to creating value in your business is to be of service.

Why Your Business Needs a Social Impact Strategy

impact, social entrepreneurship, social impact, spotlight

Social impact strategy aligns societal and business objectives, creating enormous brand value in the process.

When Machines Know: The Evolution of Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, FeatureMachineIntelligence, Google, Knowledge, Knowledge Graph, knowledge management, machineintelligence, semantic web, spotlight

A look at the relationship between knowledge and artificial intelligence in an era when machines may soon break our monopoly on knowing.

The Nature of Sensors

Machine Learning, Sensors, spotlight

As sensors and machine learning fuse, they form a critical layer in the synthesis of machine and human intelligence.

Automated Self-Service is Taking Over. Here’s How it Happened.

Automated Self-Service, service, spotlight

The seeds of our primary interface with machine intelligence rest in the humble origins of the vending machine. Here is the brief story of this evolution of self-service.

Automated Service Platforms and the Future of Work

Automated Self-Service, Automation, FeaturedAutomation, service, spotlight, technologicalunemployment

Automated service platforms don’t just lead to large-scale unemployment in the services economy; they also redefine the nature of work.

Two Types of Fairness – and Why It’s Easy to Argue About

fairness, spotlight

It’s easy to argue about fairness – because our society operates with two very different definitions of the word.

Artificially Intelligent Design

design, FeatureMachineIntelligence, Machine Learning, machineintelligence, spotlight

A new, artificially intelligent design is emerging from the depths of machine learning, and as it does, Nature finds a new medium for expression.

Community

Community-Driven “Impact Markets”

The collective buying power of Decentralized Autonomous Communities will create a new breed of values-aligned markets, called “impact markets.”

Featured, Machine Intelligence

Artificially Intelligent Design

A new, artificially intelligent design is emerging from the depths of machine learning, and as it does, Nature finds a new medium for expression.

Stakeholder Well Being

How the Stock Market Extracts Wealth

How the stock market extracts value from corporations and fuels the concentration of wealth.

Meaningful Work

The Key to Creating Value in Business

The key to creating value in your business is to be of service.

Machine Intelligence

Machine-based Collective Intelligence and the Human Experience

Artificial intelligence is changing humanity’s relationship to knowledge with profound implications for the future of the human experience.

Collective Intelligence

Technology Ecology: Connections that Sculpt Our World

Technology ecology focuses on technology’s relationships with other technologies, with people, with organizations and with the planet.

Automated Self-Service, Featured

Automated Self-Service is Taking Over. Here’s How it Happened.

The seeds of our primary interface with machine intelligence rest in the humble origins of the vending machine. Here is the brief story of this evolution of self-service.