How on-demand logistics could save brick and mortar retail
Retailers face another existential threat.
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Amazon, boredom, and culture
Corporate leadership is as much about building people as it is about developing product.
A world of continous partial employment
Managers and workers benefit when both have access to data and control.
The cloud-native future
Moving beyond ad-hoc automation to take advantage of patterns that deliver predictable capabilities.
The rise of networked platforms for physical world services
A look at the economic shift led by software and connectedness.
Imagining a future biology
We need to nurture our imaginations to fuel the biological revolution.
Streaming 101: The world beyond batch
A high-level tour of modern data-processing concepts.
The WTF Economy
What do on-demand services, AI, and the $15 minimum wage movement have in common?
Flattening organizations
It's easy to talk about eliminating hierarchy; it's much harder to do it effectively.
Innovation Nation – Megan Smith & Tim O’Reilly interview
From Solid Conference 2015: O'Reilly Media founder Tim O'Reilly talks to Megan Smith, CTO, United States Government.
Will Planned Obsolescence Kill Silicon Valley?
From Solid Conference 2015: In Detroit’s heyday, automotive manufacturers built generations of vehicles with intentionally limited lifespans to encourage new vehicle purchases on a regular basis. In today’s world of connected hardware, leading vendors like Apple are pursuing similar strategies based on rapid obsolescence.
An introduction to immutable infrastructure
Why you should stop managing infrastructure and start really programming it.
How the new hardware movement is even bigger than the Internet of Things
Cheap, accessible, open hardware is driving the IoT.
Artificial intelligence?
AI scares us because it could be as inhuman as humans.
How Data Science Is Transforming Health Care
Explore how data analysis will help us structure the business of health care more effectively around outcomes, and personalize medicine for each specific patient.
Life: Sustainable, Programmable, Bottom-Up Manufacturing
The future of manufacturing will be self-assembling products.
4 reasons why microservices resonate
Microservices optimize evolutionary change at a granular level.
Software engineers must continuously learn and integrate
Four ways programmers can thrive in their careers.