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Is Artificial Intelligence the Future of Advisory Work?

No doubt you’ve been hearing a bit lately about artificial intelligence (AI), but what relevance does AI and associated technologies have for business advisors, coaches, and professional service firms? Is AI a potential competitive advantage, just another distraction, or a replacement for the adv Read full Article

Free Cash to Fight Income Inequality? California City Is First in U.S. to Try

STOCKTON, Calif. — This town in California’s Central Valley has long functioned as a display case for wrenching troubles afflicting American life: The housing bust that turned Stockton into an epicenter of a national foreclosure disaster and plunged the city into bankruptcy. Read full Article

Facebook, Social Media and technology needs to be fixed for the good of humanity

Social media and other attention-based internet platforms have certainly captured our attention: adults in the U.S. spent nearly six hours per day on digital media last year. Read full Article

The rise of the useless class

Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class. Read full Article

The Future of Humans? One Forecaster Calls for Obsolescence

HOMO DEUS A Brief History of Tomorrow By Yuval Noah Harari Illustrated. 449 pp. Harper/HarperCollins Publishers. $35. “Organisms are algorithms,” Yuval Noah Harari asserts in his provocative new book, “Homo Deus. Read full Article