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“Today, many knowledge workers are fearful of the rise of the machines,” write Tom Davenport and Julia Kirby. “We should be concerned, given the potential for these unprecedented tools to make us redundant. But we should not feel helpless… we can make our workplaces, and our world, better than they have ever been.”
For most of the 20th Century, serious corporations judiciously invested in strategic research and development (R&D) efforts to innovate and bring new products to market. Dedicated teams got patents and top executives carefully monitored results. That traditional R&D paradigm is being challenged.
The complexities of IT automation were reflected in several presentations at the MIT IDE annual conference May 19. Attendees watched state-of-the-art “social robots” that can perceive human emotions and interact with their human “families,” and also heard about automation disrupting jobs and professions of all types. Read about The Multiple Role of Robots at Home […]
The desire for assistance is often offset by a fear of displacement.
It’s difficult enough to connect thousands of office workers, even with leading-edge technologies; it’s quite another challenge, however, when workers may be on a construction site or at a utility plant on different continents.
In IT circles, it’s common to talk about next-generation technologies, business transformation and the rapid pace of change. Usually, those discussions are in the future tense. It’s clear, however, that the next generation is unfolding now — and not just at leading-edge tech firms.
Blockchain can help secure digital transactions while also protecting user privacy Note: Professor Alex Pentland of MIT’s Media Lab, will host a panel on Big Data 2.0: Next-Gen Privacy, Security, and Analytics, at the upcoming MIT CIO Symposium on May 18. This article focuses on one aspect of his work. The exponential growth of mobile […]