Richard MacManus

Amazon has gotten great at making smart Internet products. So the outlook is good/ominous (depending on your pov) for Amazon’s retailing future.

Google is building an AI first world. Where we’re going, we don’t need mobile phones!

Would you accept a friend request from a robot? You will soon, because Facebook is building “intelligent machines.”

Artificial Intelligence is making everything around us smarter. Alexa is where it’s at in 2016, but Viv is the future.

I explore whether social bookmarking is relevant in the era of streams. Are hyperlinks still a thing?

Many of us didn’t see Brexit coming, because we filtered out the warning signs. Here’s what to do about that…

If robots will take our jobs, then our education system needs to teach our kids how to adapt.

Driverless cars, you’ll embrace. But your job being automated? Not so much.

Increasingly museums are embracing digital technology – particularly mobile phones – in order to enhance your museum-going experience.

The aspect of blockchain I find most compelling is that it will enable data owners to keep track of their data – who’s using it and when.

Two apps best illustrate the difference: Facebook is a quintessential Information Age app, while Snapchat is an Experience Age one.

What can Beyoncé, Radiohead, Chelsea Wolfe and James Blake teach us about how to use the Internet? Find out in this edition of my newsletter.

Some say Artificial Intelligence will usurp human intelligence or even make us obsolete. That’s dangerous talk.