IBM's Watson is helping doctors, insurance companies, accountants, lawyers, and others. David Kenny discusses how in each of these cases, Watson acts as an assistant rather than an opponent.
Matt Jorgensen offers a look at Josephine, a platform that connects consumers with home cooks.
Google DeepMind's deep learning approach produces surprising results, demonstrating not just vast recall or the ability to compute faster than any human, but what many people would consider real creativity.
Jessica Lessin outlines the business model behind The Information and explains why she wants to build a business that lasts.
Joshua Browder has been working to replace exploitative lawyers—mainly the ones charging hundreds of dollars for copying and pasting documents—with chatbots.
Paul English’s vision of pairing AI and human expertise has much to teach us about how to do business in the future.
The story behind John Basset III's family furniture company proves the destruction of good jobs is not inevitable.
Bryce Roberts explores Indie.vc-style startups and why they might be more important to the economy than traditional Silicon Valley startups.
Rana Foroohar, author of Makers and Takers, discusses the repercussions of short-term incentive structures.
At Next:Economy 2016, business leaders, policy makers, and technologists charted a course from the economy we experience today to an economy that brings prosperity to all.
Innovation Economics, Decentralized Prediction Markets, Front-End Build Tools, and CS Debates
Douglas Rushkoff outlines a way forward to a local, circular economy, where money stays in a community and helps us build a more human-centered society.
Liquid marketplaces are a big part of the future of work, and Thumbtack founder and CEO Marco Zappacosta has gone after an often invisible sector that is essential to the functioning of modern society.
Graphs and maps from Max Roser’s Our World in Data have become a fixture on social media and in thoughtful conversations around the world. Roser reminds us that if we play our cards right, the future is still bright.
Sara Holoubek's Human Company Manifesto is one of the seminal documents of the Next Economy. She outlines its tenets in this talk.
LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner on what LinkedIn tells us about how we can better match supply and demand in key skills.
Niantic founder and CEO John Hanke talks about his motivations in creating the Pokémon GO app and what it teaches us about the future of entertainment.
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs building bot companies demonstrate their bots and show you how you can use them to empower your staff.