Surveys the potential of emerging technologies, drawing on the insights of experts to explore how artificial intelligence, algorithms, and new approaches to organization will change business and life in the near future.

"In Silicon Valley the phrase "disruptive technology" is tossed around on a casual basis. No one doubts that technology has the power to devastate entire industries and upend various sectors of the job market. But Rise of the Robots asks a bigger question: Can accelerating technology disrupt our entire economic system to the point where a fundamental restructuring is required? Companies like Facebook and YouTube may only need a handful of employees...

"Libraries today are more important than ever. More than just book repositories, libraries can become bulwarks against some of the most crucial challenges of our age: unequal access to education, jobs, and information. In BiblioTech, educator and technology expert John Palfrey argues that anyone seeking to participate in the 21st century needs to understand how to find and use the vast stores of information available online. And libraries, which play...

"Book to teach children to limit the amount of time they spend on the screens by providing ideas for other things they can do"--

"What is a down-and-out old-school journalist to do at a time of media disruption? Slink away and die? Not if he's smart. Veteran reporter and TV war correspondent Mark Scribner is ambitious and cynically brilliant. As he soon figures out, he already has all the tools he needs in order to pivot his moribund journalism career to the next level - and beyond. The question is, how much of his soul will he have to sell to get there?"-- cover page 4.