Author: Tim O'Reilly
Call No.: HC79.T4 Ore

Technology has brought great convenience to our lives. With smart phones, we can order food from the comfort of our homes, track every step we take and never get lost again. As technology becomes smarter, it begins to outperform humans in many areas. Many people fear that robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will one day take over our jobs. In his book, O'Reilly believes that technology may kill professions, but never jobs. He shares techniques culled from analysing past innovation waves, which can be used as a framework to decode today’s algorithm-based technologies and data-driven economies. He also urges businesses to do more for the society with technology and not just to cut costs to enrich shareholders. What’s the future? Why, it’s up to us! Ultimately, it would fall on us, as a society, to examine these choices and impacts on our future.