They found that people tended to ascribe human qualities to the chatbot. According to Harvard University economist David Deming, GenAI has had a faster adoption rate than the internet or personal computers. Now,
“Big companies don’t want to miss the next big thing, and startups want to cash in on unrestrained hopes and dreams, the way so many startups cashed in on dot-coms, cryptocurrencies, and generic AI,” Gary N. Smith, an economist and author of several books on AI includingDistrust:...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Preview Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.References Aldrich, D.F. (1999) Mastering the Digital Marketplace: Practical Strategies for Competitiveness in the New Economy. New York: John Wiley & ...
In 1930, celebrated economist John Maynard Keynes made a prediction: by the turn of the millennium, the efficiencies offered by modern technology would be enough that the entire population would work, on average, 15 hours a week. Needless to say, this didn’t happen. Automation a...
In case you haven’t been paying attention for the last decade-and-a-half, democracies have fallen on very hard times and been rolled back in many countries (see The Economist’s annual surveys on the state of democracy, for example). That distemper is now in our streets and it is ...
In this chapter, we discuss traditional change models, such as Lewin’s three-phase unfreezing model and Kotter’s eight steps. We also focus on misconceptions about change leadership, for example around top managements’ role, positioning of change...
Sonal: Huh, an economist’s view of DevOps. I love it. Jez: You’re right. You reduced my entire body of words to one sentence. Dr. Forsgren: It’s so much Conway’s Law, right? Sonal: Remind me what Conway’s Law is. Dr. Forsgren: So organizations which design systems are...
Those pearls of wisdom seemed to ring true during every economist's forecast of 2012. Hopes of the housing market finally turning the corner in 2010 were dashed after the federal gov- ernment's homebuyer tax incentive program came to a close and starts deteriorated sharply, according to ...
The rapid evolution of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) practices and applications have forced many governments to adopt new mechanisms to satisfy their citizens’ emerging need for participation. This participation can be achieved when gov