Machine Work

In this updated and expanded edition of Human + Machine—including a new chapter on gen AI—Daugherty and Wilson show that the essence of the AI paradigm shift is the transformation of all business processes within an organization, whether related to breakthrough innovation, everyday customer service, or personal productivity habits. As humans and smart machines collaborate ever more closely, work processes become more fluid and adaptive, enabling companies to change them on the fly—or completely reimagine them.

From award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI is transforming our working lives in unpredictable ways A tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the economy, as robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we...

A Financial Times Best Science Book of 2023 A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"—the physics behind the ocean’s systems—and why it matters. All of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water...

Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, with the help of his friend newspaper reporter Hutchison Hatch, solves a variety of mysteries using cold, hard logic. No matter how twisted the trail of clues or how clever the perpetrator, Professor Van Dusen, aptly dubbed “The Thinking Machine”, reminds us that “two and two make four, not some times, but all the time”.

The extraordinary true story of Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works”—the radical innovation hub that designed the greatest airplanes of the twentieth century—and the visionary who made it all possible "A kerosene-soaked masterclass in what extreme innovation looks, feels, and even smells...

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO CLAUDE COWORK — NOW FULLY UPDATED FOR DISPATCH, COMPUTER USE, PLUGINS, AND EVERYTHING ANTHROPIC HAS SHIPPED SINCE LAUNCH. Claude Cowork launched in January 2026 and changed what's possible for knowledge workers. Delegate real tasks to AI: organising files, creating documents, extracting data from receipts, conducting research — all without writing a single line of code. This handbook was the first comprehensive guide to Cowork. This second edition brings it fully up to date with a product that has moved fast. Since launch, Anthropic has shipped Windows support, a...

Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year The "rich and gripping" true story of the first time machines came for human jobs—and how the Luddite uprising explains the power, threat, and toll of big tech and AI today (Naomi Klein) The most urgent story in modern tech begins...

New York Times bestselling author Dan Lyons exposes how the "new oligarchs" of Silicon Valley have turned technology into a tool for oppressing workers in this "passionate" (Kirkus) and "darkly funny" (Publishers Weekly) examination of workplace culture. At a time of soaring corporate profits...

USA TODAY BESTSELLER! Make financial freedom real with the right mindset, right process, and right action steps Does it feel like you’re missing out on life because you can't get your finances in order? Are you seeking a life free of financial fear and full of meaning, purpose, and impact? The...

In The Second Machine Age MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.

Every AI you have ever used began as nonsense. Before it could answer a question, pass a medical exam, or fold a protein, it was a machine that had never seen a word, guessing at random and wrong almost every time. This book is the story of how that nonsense gets trained into something that reads, reasons, and now and then fools the people who built it. It is machine learning with the machinery left out and the meaning left in. You have read the headlines. A model "thinks." A model "understands." A model is coming for your job by Tuesday. And somewhere between the press releases and the ...

You didn’t save time, you just started managing AI. You try to get AI to do something. You write a prompt, expecting it to handle the task. It gives you an answer… but it’s not really what you wanted. So you tweak it. Add a bit more detail. Try again. Now there’s another issue. Something still feels off. So you adjust it again. Rewrite parts of it. Clarify what you meant. And it keeps going like this. Each time, you get a little closer… but never quite there. So you step in again—guiding it, correcting it, fixing it. Before long, you’re constantly tweaking and micromanaging ...

A plain‑English guide that reveals the hidden physics inside everyday machines—so you can finally see how the hardware around you actually works. Machines shape almost everything you touch: the car in the driveway, the furnace in the basement, the refrigerator humming in the kitchen, the power plant miles away that keeps the lights on. Behind every one of them is the quiet, elegant discipline that turns physical law into working hardware. This book is a plain-English tour of that discipline, written for readers who want to understand what is really happening inside pumps, engines, coils...

A collection of shockingly prescient stories covering topics from aliens to AI, including some that have never before been seen, from the New York Times bestselling author of the Silo trilogy Hugh Howey is known for crafting riveting and immersive page-turners of boundless imagination, spawning...

Streamed by millions every day, porn is everywhere. It shapes our culture, our relationships, and even technology. Yet, nobody seems to know who really controls the business. The power brokers tend to lurk in the shadows, while their performers remain quite literally exposed. In The Kink Machine: The Hidden Business of Adult Entertainment, two Financial Times journalists, Patricia Nilsson and Alex Barker, start digging into the porn industry and following where the money flows.

"An Oxford economics professor, Susskind has a patient delivery that benefits from his authoritative voice and scholarly view of this speculative subject...an important and eye-opening audiobook." -- AudioFile Magazine This program is read by the author. From an Oxford economist, a visionary...

La inteligencia artificial está cambiando el trabajo de todos. Quedarse al margen ya no es una opción. Ryan Roslansky y Aneesh Raman te muestran cómo enfrentar este momento con claridad y confianza. Open to Work es una obra indispensable para entender cómo la inteligencia artificial está transformando el mundo laboral y qué podemos hacer para seguir siendo relevantes en medio de tal cambio. La IA modificará los empleos actuales, pero también abrirá nuevas oportunidades para quienes sepan combinar tecnología con capacidades exclusivamente humanas.

Artificial intelligence may feel invisible—but the machines behind it are anything but. Inside the AI Machine takes readers beyond the apps, chatbots, and algorithms to reveal the enormous physical infrastructure making the AI revolution possible. From GPUs and high-speed networks to power plants, substations, liquid cooling, data centers, and the skilled workers who build and maintain them, this book explains how the entire system fits together. Written for intelligent non-engineers, it turns complex technology into clear, understandable explanations without oversimplifying the science. ...

“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and ‘learning’ is such a word. It seems so ordinary, everyone does it. Actually it’s more of a black box, which Dehaene cracks open to reveal the awesome secrets within.”—The New York Times...

A CLEAR, ENGAGING JOURNEY INTO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BEGINNING WITH THE HUMAN MIND. How does a machine learn to predict, reason, and plan? How Minds Are Made explains artificial intelligence from the inside out, guided by one powerful idea. Intelligence depends on building models of the world and using them to anticipate what happens next. You’ll discover how human minds understand the world around them and how machines learn to do things once thought possible only for us.