The Innovation Ultimatum: How Six Strategic Technologies Will Reshape Every Business in The 2020s

Abstract

Intro -- The Innovation Ultimatum -- Contents -- Foreword: Don't Fear the Future . . . Prepare for It -- Introduction: To Survive, Every Company Must Become a Tech Company -- The Innovation Ultimatum -- Automation and Augmentation -- Product, Service, and Business-Model Innovation -- The Innovator's Palette -- Six Technologies Intimately Connect the Digital and Physical Worlds -- Winners Will Wield and Combine These Technologies Like Artists Use Color -- Expect More Change in the Next 10 Years Than the Last 40 -- Should I Be Afraid or Excited? -- Getting the Most Out of This Book -- Don't Panic -- Don't Wait -- Get Help -- Part I: Six Technologies That Will Reshape Business in the Next Decade -- Chapter 1: Artificial Intelligence -- What Is It and Why Is It Important? -- Electricity, Digital Computers, and Artificial Intelligence -- The Next Era of Computing: Traditional Digital versus Artificial Intelligence -- A 1950s Concept and 1980s Algorithms Meet Modern Computing Horsepower -- What Can You Do with It? -- Machine Vision: Computers Open Their Eyes -- Natural Language Processing and Voice Platforms -- Exploration and Discovery -- Better-Informed Decision-Making -- Predicting the Future -- Seeing the World through a New Lens with Super Sensors -- Solving Complex Problems by Learning from Experience -- Creating and Co-Creating Content -- Future Uses of AI -- How AI Works -- Neural Networks, Training, and Models -- Example: A Radiology AI -- Pattern Recognition -- Beyond Deep Learning: The Future of Artificial Intelligence -- Stagnation or Golden Age? -- Narrow, General, and Super Intelligence -- Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI) -- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) -- Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) -- Strategies to Get You Started -- Make Predictions about Customers, Operations, and Trends.