Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
@DeepMindAI wants to “solve intelligence.” #AI #Prediction
Beating Go was just the start — DeepMind has designs on healthcare, robots, and your phone…
Read More: DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future | The Verge
What’s Next in Computing? via @cdixon #AI #iot #mobile #insight #prediction #trends
Tech product cycles are mutually reinforcing interactions between platforms and applications. New platforms enable new applications, which in turn make the new platforms more valuable, creating a positive feedback loop… We can try to understand and predict the product cycle by studying the past and extrapolating into the future.
Read More (via Chris Dixon): What’s Next in Computing?
Just submitted for @shoporg 2016: “Programmatic Commerce: Why Unified Commerce is so important.” #retail #insights #wishmeluck
Proposal Abstract Description:
Unified Commerce [formerly known as Omnichannel] is no longer a nice to have, it is a foundational imperative…but why? Some may say Unified Commerce will provide differentiation and help a retailer meet customer needs and expectations; I believe there is something much greater happening, and if retailers do not take notice their firms could lose complete relevancy in the coming years.
With the advancements being made in artificial intelligence, shoppers will be less and less likely the “buyer.” Virtual private assistants will take over more and more of the routine purchasing decisions. I call this “Programmatic Commerce.” During this session, we will discuss this concept and how it fits into the near term achievement of Unified Commerce. Unified Commerce is just a milestone, not the end game.
What will humans do when machines can do almost everything? #AI #Robotics #jobs #WhatIsWork #economics
Artificial intelligence experts predict that intelligent and semi-intelligent autonomous systems — such as self-driving cars and autonomous drones — “will march into our society” in the next two to three years, with driving expected to be fully automated in 25 years, a panel of experts said at a 13 February news briefing at the 2016 AAAS Annual Meeting.
Source: Increasing Use of Autonomous Systems Could Threaten Jobs
NRF forecasts retail sales to grow 3.1 percent in 2016
Online and other non-store sales to grow as much as 9 percent.
Read More: NRF forecasts retail sales to grow 3.1 percent in 2016 | National Retail Federation
@Apple Confidential – Steve Jobs on “Think Different” – Internal Meeting Sept. 23, 1997 #leadership #RelevantToday
“The people who are crazy enough, to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
Digital Transformation Requires Total Organizational Commitment #Retail #Disruption #digital #leadership
Wherever you turn, businesses are facing tremendous disruptive pressure. What’s interesting is that the theory about how firms should be dealing with this..
Source TechCrunch: Digital Transformation Requires Total Organizational Commitment
Thought provoking piece on redefining “work” as we enter what is being called the 4th Industrial Revolution. #AI #economy #jobs #trends
This is a great thought provoking piece on rethinking what “work” is as we enter what is being called the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where we are approaching a point period where you will theoretically be able to do everything with nothing [Ephemeralization].
Read More: Fourth Industrial Revolution
Mobile Holiday Sales Reach $13 Billion; 64% Of Retailers To Increase Smartphone Investments #Retail #Trend
The impact of mobile on this past holiday shopping season was projected to be huge, and huge it was. With final tallies coming in, spending via smartphone for online purchases hit $13 billion, based on a new study. That’s an increase of 59% from a year ago, according to comScore, and that’s just for the last two months of last year.