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CIOs Learn Leadership, Automation Lessons

A recurring theme at the May 20 MIT CIO Symposium was how business executives are finally Leading Digital. There’s no one silver bullet that will guarantee success, but importantly, IT leaders are...

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Member Guidelines

Member Guidelines for Participation in the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy “DigitalCommunity” VERSION 2Created on: November 23, 2011Updated June 4, 2015These guidelines for Participation are...

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Technology is Good Economic News, Not an Enemy

A group I’m part of made a strong claim recently. A number of executives, entrepreneurs, and investors from the high tech industries, along with some economists (who tend to believe that technological...

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Founders of DeepMind, Duolingo Focus on Tech’s Benefits

There are some striking similarities shared by Mustafa Suleyman co-founder of DeepMind, and Luis von Ahn, co-founder of Duolingo: Both are young, idealistic, non-U.S.-born entrepreneurs pushing the...

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The Continuing Evolution of the On-Demand Economy

The past few years have seen the rise of what’s been variously referred to as the on-demand, collaborative, sharing, or peer-to-peer economy.  Regardless of what we call it, this trend has captured the...

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Technology, Unlike Youth, is not Wasted on the Young

I recently got invited to speak at Brooklyn 1.0, a conference of “design, people and technology” to be held this autumn in the borough that is New York City’s hipster hothouse. I accepted because...

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How Technology is Reducing our Demands on the Environment

In his important recent essay “The Return of Nature”, Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University, highlights a wonderful phenomenon: we humans have been giving land back to nature, since we no longer need...

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Bridging the World’s Knowledge Divide

A few months ago I attended the 12th annual Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty, a meeting that brought together around 50-60 policy and technical experts from government, academia, business,...

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Event Video: IBM Watson Challenge

MIT's Center for Digital Business held a symposium on the new book, “The Race Against the Machine: The Future of Technology and Employment” as well as the “IBM Watson Challenge,” late last year. Among...

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The Economic Optimism of Paul Romer and Chad Jones

Two leading economists and professors—NYU’s Paul Romer and Chad Jones of Stanford—shared macroeconomic insights about growth and inequality at separate MIT IDE seminars recently. Jones, Professor of...

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Defending the Free Market in Davos

For me, the best thing about [the recent] World Economic Forum in Davos was an exposure to worldviews very different from my own. Professionally, I hang around mainly with technologists, entrepreneurs,...

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The Uneven Rise of Data-Driven Decision Making

Growing opportunities to collect and leverage digital information have led many managers to change how they make decisions – relying less on intuition and more on data. As Jim Barksdale, the former CEO...

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The On-Demand Economy: Risks for Some, Rewards for Others?

Whose on-demand economy is it anyway? That seemed to be a sub-theme of the recent recent On-Demand Economy conferenceheld by MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy. Not only did discussions focus on...

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Could Blockchain Prove to be FinTech's “Next Big Thing?”

The banking industry has long been one of the major users of IT; among the first to automate its back-end and front-office processes and to later embrace the Internet and smartphones.  However, banking...

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Addressing the Enigma of Cybersecurity in a Data-driven World

Blockchain can help secure digital transactions while also protecting user privacy By Alex Pentland Note: Professor Alex Pentland of MIT’s Media Lab, will host a panel on Big Data 2.0: Next-Gen...

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Q&A with Michael Schrage: Yesterday's R&D Models Won't Fuel Tomorrow's...

For most of the 20th Century, serious corporations judiciously invested in strategic research and development (R&D) efforts to innovate and bring new products to market. Dedicated teams got patents...

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Q&A With Robin Hanson: Life in the Age of Robots

In his new book, The Age of Em, the professor and futurist, Robin Hanson, gives us a peek at how the world of AI and brain emulations might actually work — and it’s more Sci than Fi. There is general...

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Probing the Tyranny — and Promise — of Machine Algorithms

As computer algorithms proliferate, how will bias be kept in check? What if machines and AI are subject to the same flaws in decision-making as the humans who design them? In the rush to adopt machine...

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