All Topics
The World of Tools and Landmines
Superintelligence, by author Nick Bostrom, is a great tool for framing the importance of the topic of digital transformation. As he evaluates the potential of a reality in which artificial intelligence is superior to human intelligence, many of the considerations he examines are at the center of digital transformation itself. Adaptability, collaboration, and communication: these are topics that will be the vocabulary of the most success companies/industries in a digital era. They also happen to be key themes of his book.
Forces Transforming Our World
Have you noticed that the world has been changing a lot recently? Have you wondered what the forces were behind those changes? Well, so did the authors Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, and Jonathan Woetzel. They wrote a book titled No Ordinary Disruption about four...
The Emergence of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
The Fourth Industrial Revolution, by Klaus Schwab, introduces readers to the new revolution taking the world by storm. The previous revolutions have brought great changes, but Klaus stresses the impact that digitization will have on history. His intention for the book is to make aware what the fourth industrial revolution is, what it will bring, how it will impact us, and what can be done to harness it for the common good.
Change Your Brain, Change Your World
Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work by Steven Kotler and Jamie Wheal is a fantastic read on how changes in brain chemistry can lead to dramatic increases in our abilities to solve complex problems. We are able to change our brain chemistry through a number of activities, be that meditation, thrill-seeking, music, or even psychoactive drug use.
Throw Away the Books and Listen: It’s Time To Get Real about the Digital Era
AI has left the silver screen and is now everywhere. It is in your pocket and on your washing machine. It is in your car and writing the news you read online. AI is constantly displacing old technology and ways of doing things, but will it stop there? No, it will not. I know what you are thinking; Will AI displace me?
The New Rules of the Business World: The Digital Matrix
Packed with current case studies and practical experience-based advice, The Digital Matrix shows you how to rethink your business model from the outside in, assemble the right team for the journey ahead, and make bold strategic choices along the three phases of digital transformation.
Will Machines Replace Me?
“What To Do When Machines Do Everything” By Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig, and Ben Pring discusses the benefits and potential consequences of the digital era. Digital transformation isn’t just coming, it’s already here, and this book outlines the steps that you can do to be prepared for this technological revolution. When technology is everywhere, transformation can come from anywhere. Rather than predicting the future, Frank, Roehrig, and Pring encourage readers to go out and invent it, hand-in-hand with the new machines.
Digital Mastery is the Key to Digital Transformation
The digital era we are living in is rapidly changing, and if you don’t take the time to keep up with the newest technologies, you will be swallowed up and left behind your competition. Digital transformation is using these rapidly changing technology and digital...
A Quick Guide to Coexisting with the Future of Tech
What to do When Machines do Everything by authors Ben Pring, Malcolm Frank, and Paul Roehrig is a book about exactly what its title says. Written in 2017, the authors spent three years prior to publication conversing with the top minds from companies and universities in order to make greater sense of the imminent technological change. To summarize their findings, they offer their personal roadmap to the future with their acronym, AHEAD.