Community-Driven “Impact Markets”
The collective buying power of Decentralized Autonomous Communities will create a new breed of values-aligned markets, called “impact markets.”
Community Saves the World
A new breed of blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Communities could be how we save the world.
How the Stock Market Extracts Wealth
How the stock market extracts value from corporations and fuels the concentration of wealth.
The Interest Graph Maps Our Connections to Ideas and Things
The Interest Graph is software for connecting us to our interests. Today, it makes us better shoppers. Tomorrow, it could change the nature of work.
Humans are the Heart of Synthetic Intelligence
A merger between humans and machines is coming, and it’s not what you might think.
Automated Service Platforms and the Future of Work
Automated service platforms don’t just lead to large-scale unemployment in the services economy; they also redefine the nature of work.
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.
Intelligent, Automated Self-Service
Automated self-service is Silicon Valley’s trick for automating the service economy and for fueling machine learning and the knowledge economy.
The Nature of Sensors
As sensors and machine learning fuse, they form a critical layer in the synthesis of machine and human intelligence.
What do Automation and AI Hold for the Future of Stakeholder Engagement?
Engagement is what enables organizations to coordinate external contributions of work and intelligence. It’s also the future of the human-machine relationship.
The Fall of Google+
The disastrous Google+ shutdown vividly demonstrates the risks of trusting our creations and relationships to big corporations.
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.
Artificial Intelligence as a Force for Good
Stanford Social Innovation Review article on mission-driven artificial intelligence aimed at solving societal and ecological challenges.
A Handy Way to Think About Machine Learning
A (relatively) simple explanation of machine learning.
When We Converse with the Alien Intelligence of Machines
Machine intelligence will teach us to expand our understanding of 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.
When Machines Know: The Evolution of Knowledge and Artificial Intelligence
A look at the relationship between knowledge and artificial intelligence in an era when machines may soon break our monopoly on knowing.
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.
Join me on the Vital Edge in exploring the awakening of a new, synthetic intelligence—part-human and part-machine—and its impact on human culture, organizations and life itself. — Gideon.
Community Saves the World
A new breed of blockchain-based Decentralized Autonomous Communities could be how we save the world.
How the Stock Market Extracts Wealth
How the stock market extracts value from corporations and fuels the concentration of wealth.
The Interest Graph Maps Our Connections to Ideas and Things
The Interest Graph is software for connecting us to our interests. Today, it makes us better shoppers. Tomorrow, it could change the nature of work.
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Will Automate Food Distribution
The coronavirus pandemic will radically accelerate automated self-service in the food sector.
The Contest for the Soul of Technology
How the future of technology, humanity, and the planet depends on rewriting the code within the code.
Platforms Are the Future of Intelligence, So Let’s Not Make Them Parasites
As we organize human work and learning at fantastic scales, let’s strive for something inspiring. Through our relationship with machines, humans are building a new, synthetic intelligence. Organizations are the home for this part-human, part-machine intelligence. The topic to which we now turn is the role organizations play in coordinating the immense scale of work…
Engaging Design, as Intuitive as an Oreo
Engaging design is simple, intuitive, and critical to managing our increasingly complex relationship with machines.
Automated Fast Food Experiences Growing Pains—But Its Rise is Inevitable
Despite recent setbacks, automated self-service and fast food are on a collision course.
Humans are the Heart of Synthetic Intelligence
A merger between humans and machines is coming, and it’s not what you might think.
New Research Hints at How Your Smiles Could One Day Teach Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft Research shows how Artificial Intelligence can piggyback on our emotions in order to learn tasks.