Authoritative Reports:

World Economic Forum, The Future of Jobs Employment, Skills and Workforce Strategy for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

University of Oxford: Platform Sourcing How Fortune 500 Firms Are Adopting Online Freelancing Platforms

Field Nation, the 2016 Field Nation Freelancer Study

World Economic Forum: Towards a Reskilling Revolution

World Economic Forum: Eight Futures of Work - Scenarios & Their Implications

University of Oxford: Platform Sourcing - How Fortune 500 Firms Are Adopting Online Freelancing Platforms

Accenture: Shaping the Agile Workforce

Accenture: Harnessing Revolution, Creating the Future Workforce

Accenture: Citizen AI

McKinsey: Technology, jobs, and the future of work

McKinsey: Harnessing Automation For a Future that Works

Deloitte: Transitioning to the future of work and the workplace

Deloitte: The future of work: The augmented workforce

Deloitte: Cognitive collaboration: Why humans and computers think better together

Deloitte: Automation is here to stay…but what about your workforce?

Upwork: Freelancing in America, 2017

Upwork: 2018 Future Workforce Report

Stanford University Computer Science Department, What is Artificial Intelligence

University of Washington, The History of Artificial Intelligence


Articles:

Nation 10-99: Statistics that Explain the Gig Economy

Forbes: How The Gig Economy Will Help Deliver The True Value Of IoT

Time: 1 in 3 Americans Work on a Freelance Basis

Entrepreneur: The Gig Economy Is Reinventing the Enterprise -- Don't Get Left Behind

Entrepreneur: Workers Without Borders: Managing the Remote Revolution

McKinsey: Rethinking world in the digital era, a framework for thinking about this new world taking shape

Seattle Times, Amazon to hire 5,000 remote customer-service reps, part of drive to add 30,000 part-timers

Business News Daily, The Growth of the Gig Economy: A Look at American Freelancers

Venture Beat, 6 areas where artificial neural networks outperform humans

Wired, What News-Writing Bots Mean For the Future of Journalism

Tech Emergence, Automated Journalism Applications

McKinsey, Education to employment: Designing a system that works

TechRepublic: Machine learning: The smart person's guide

TechRepublic, Understanding the differences between AI, machine learning, and deep learning

HBR: The Great Decoupling

HBR, Article: Data From 3.5 Million Employees Shows How Innovation Really Works

Co.Design, Article: Exclusive: Ideo’s Plan To Stage An AI Revolution

HBR, Article: The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

HBR, Article: The Industries That Are Being Disrupted the Most by Digital

HBR, Article: Is Your Company Adapting Fast Enough to Thrive in an Increasingly Digital World?

Tim Brown, Article: Design for Augmented Intelligence - Bringing a human-centered approach to big data and smart machines

Singularity U, Ebook: The Exponential Leaders Guide to Achieving 10x Growth

Singularity U, Article: How to Think Exponentially and Better Predict the Future

Singularity U, Article: Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating — Because It Actually Is

Singularity U, Article: 12 Industries Disrupted by Tech Companies Expanding Into New Markets

Singularity U, Article: Why the World Is Better Than Ever—and Will Get Better Still

American Enterprise Institute, Article: Fortune 500 firms in 1955 vs. 2014; 88% are gone, and we’re all better off because of that dynamic ‘creative destruction’

Forbes, Artificial Intelligence From Maana Speeds Up Digital Transformation At Maersk

Singularity U, Article: 7 Critical Skills for the Jobs of the Future

HBR, Article: Why Preventing Disruption in 2017 Is Harder Than It Was When Christensen Coined the Term

Infographic, 2017 Emerging Technologies Gartner Hype Cycle

CNBC, Article: World capital of block chain is now rising in the Middle East

McKinsey, Article: The eight essentials of innovation

AdExchanger, Article: How Farmers Insurance CMO And CIO Helped Rebuild For The Digital World


Books: Master Bookshelf

Robot Proof, Joseph E Aoun

The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

Machine, Platform, Crowd, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee

Rise of the Robots, Martin Ford

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 technological forces that will shape our future, Kevin Kelly

How to Create a Mind, Ray Kurzweil

Who Owns the Future, Jaron Lanier

The Industries of the Future, Alec Ross

The Zero Marginal Cost Society, Jeremy Rifkin

The Fuzzy and the Techie, Scott Hartley

WTF, Tim O'Reilly

Life 3.0: being human in the age of artificial intelligence, Max Tegmark

No Ordinary Disruption, Richard Dobbs, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel

The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos

Homo Deus, Yaval Noah Harari


Platform Resources:

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