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Marker

How Much Value Has Amazon Created for the World?

Apr 29, 2021

How Much Value Has Amazon Created for the World?

Apr 29, 2021

Published in
Marker

A Tale of Two Platforms

Before winner-take-all became the name of the game, a bookseller called Ingram showed a better way

Apr 16, 2021

A Tale of Two Platforms

Apr 16, 2021

Facebook isn’t free. We pay for it with our attention.

“Are You Really the Product?” Will Oremus asks on Slate, and hints at his answer with the subtitle for his piece: “The history of a…

Apr 27, 2018

Apr 27, 2018

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Why America Slept

We must renew trust in our institutions!

Mar 16, 2018

Why America Slept

Mar 16, 2018

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

What’d I miss?

There’s a scene in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton in which Thomas Jefferson, who has been away as ambassador to France after the American…

Jan 8, 2018

What’d I miss?

Jan 8, 2018

Published in
Words That Matter

Phishing for Phools

The CEO of O’Reilly Media explains why social media manipulation is today’s greatest phishing scam.

Dec 7, 2017

Phishing for Phools

Dec 7, 2017

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us

That’s the title of my new book, due out on October 10 from Harper Business in the US, and on October 17 from Penguin Random House in the…

Aug 18, 2017

WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up To Us

Aug 18, 2017

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Do More! What Amazon Teaches Us About AI and the “Jobless Future”

We hear again and again that AI and robots are going to take away human jobs. My broken kettle says otherwise.

Jun 8, 2017

Do More! What Amazon Teaches Us About AI and the “Jobless Future”

Jun 8, 2017

How I Detect Fake News

How I traced the falsity of one internet meme, and what that teaches us about how an algorithm might do it

Nov 23, 2016

How I Detect Fake News

Nov 23, 2016

The Huffington Post Has a Fake News Problem!

I was really struck by the coverage of the Hamilton cast statement last night. The video is above. Please watch it before reading.

Nov 19, 2016

The Huffington Post Has a Fake News Problem!

Nov 19, 2016

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

“Wall Street Made Me Do It”

We have to change the incentives that encourage companies to choose boosting their stock price over investing in people and the real…

Nov 14, 2016

“Wall Street Made Me Do It”

Nov 14, 2016

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Media in the Age of Algorithms

Since Tuesday’s election, there’s been a lot of finger pointing, and many of those fingers are pointing at Facebook, arguing that their…

Nov 11, 2016

Media in the Age of Algorithms

Nov 11, 2016

How We Fight

“In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.” — Freeman Dyson

Nov 10, 2016

How We Fight

Nov 10, 2016

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

WTF? What’s The Future?

My talk at the White House Frontiers Conference

Oct 19, 2016

WTF? What’s The Future?

Oct 19, 2016

Published in
From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Central Park and the App Store

I was in New York again this past week, and as I did the week before, I took a morning run through Central Park. It’s beautiful in the…

Sep 28, 2016

Central Park and the App Store

Sep 28, 2016

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Why The Game of Business Needs to Change Its Rules

This is one of a series of essays on what I’m calling The Next Economy, an economy in which we use technology not just to replace workers…

Aug 9, 2016

Why The Game of Business Needs to Change Its Rules

Aug 9, 2016

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Don’t Replace People. Augment Them.

If we let machines put us out of work, it will be because of a failure of imagination and the will to make a better future!

Jul 17, 2016

Don’t Replace People. Augment Them.

Jul 17, 2016

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Machine Money and People Money

A Conversation about Universal Basic Income with John Maynard Keynes and Paul Buchheit

Jul 10, 2016

Machine Money and People Money

Jul 10, 2016

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Code for America Blog

“Stuff that Matters” Design Challenge: 120 probation officers sharing one iPhone

I’ve spent many years encouraging the technology industry to work on stuff that matters. Not only do we need to tackle the big problems…

Jul 1, 2016

“Stuff that Matters” Design Challenge: 120 probation officers sharing one iPhone

Jul 1, 2016

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From the WTF? Economy to the Next Economy

Technology and business as if people matter

The questions discussed in this post are among the many we’ll tackle in the upcoming Next:Economy Summit. This is the definitive forum on…

Jun 29, 2016

Jun 29, 2016

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Tim O'Reilly

Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media. Watching the alpha geeks, sharing their stories, helping the future unfold.

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