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Work from home (WFH) has been around for decades. The share of people working from home three or more days per week was under 1% in 1980, growing modestly with the rise of the Internet to around 2.4% in 2010 and 4% in 2018. Then came Covid-19, forcing tens of millions around the world to…
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“The central purpose of supply chains is to fulfill the needs and wants of humanity — delivering all the food, medicine, energy, apparel, and other worldly goods needed by the eight billion people in the planet,” wrote MIT professor Yossi Sheffi in the preface of his 2023 book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I.…
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“AI is changing the cost and availability of expertise, and that will fundamentally alter how businesses organize and compete,” said “Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise,” a Harvard Business Rreview (HBR) article by Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani and Microsoft corporate strategists Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, John Corwin, and Yang Li. At its most…
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“Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has the potential to drive significant improvements in workforce productivity at the level of tasks, organizations and economies,” said a recent report “Leveraging Generative AI for Job Augmentation and Workforce Productivity: Scenarios, Case Studies and a Framework for Action,” by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with PwC. “Delivering those gains…
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General purpose technologies (GPTs) are the defining technologies of their times. They are engines for growth that can radically transform the economic environment. “Early versions of GPTs often look very different from their mature forms,” wrote MIT’s Isabella Loaiza and Roberto Rigobon in “The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work.” “Only after waves of…
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MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks has been posting an annual Predictions Scorecard in rodneybrooks.com since January 1, 2018, where he predicts future milestones in three technology areas: AI and robotics, self driving cars, and human space travel. He also reviews the actual progress in each of these areas to see how his past predictions have…
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“In the complex and rapidly evolving business landscape and volatile global market conditions, supply chains cannot thrive in isolation,” begins “Building Constellations of Value — Transforming Supply Chains to Drive Collaboration, Innovation, and Long-Term Value,” a recently published report by the Digital Supply Chain Institute (DSCI), an organization focused on the evolution of enterprise supply…
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“Open source software (OSS) has become a driving force behind innovation, collaboration, and the democratization of technology,” said the 2024 Global Spotlight Insights Report. The report, published last month by Linux Foundation Research, analyzed regional and industry differences in open source opportunities and challenges and tracked year-over-year trends. The report’s findings are based on the…
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A few weeks ago, MIT News published an article on “What do we know about the economics of AI?” The article is based on the research of MIT Nobel laureate professor Daron Acemoglu, who in October was awarded the 2024 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with his MIT colleague Simon Johnson and University…
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“During this period of astonishing technical progress and public engagement on artificial intelligence, the world has been grappling with how to get AI right — and for good reason,” wrote James Manyika, in “Getting AI Right: A 2050 Thought Experiment.” Manyika is Senior Vice President of Research, Technology and Society at Google and Chairman Emeritus…