The Future Computed: AI & Manufacturing

by Greg Shaw, Çağlayan Akan (Foreword)

The sector that led the first and second industrial revolutions is again at the forefront of adopting new technologies to raise productivity, reinvent business processes and create safer work environments. The Future Computed: AI and Manufacturing shares insights from leading companies, policy makers, and labor representatives on how AI is reshaping the marketplace, the workplace and the workforce. The second in Microsoft’s Future Computed series, this new book sets out options for governments and industry to enable a competitive manufacturing sector, deliver AI in an ethical way and build a sustainable talent supply chain. The book looks at the digital and cultural transformation that AI is ushering in for manufacturers while offering some policy considerations to foster responsible innovation, improve worker safety, enhance job creation and drive national competitiveness.

164 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 1, 2019

About the author

Greg Shaw (January 1949 – October 19, 2004) was an American writer, publisher, magazine editor, music historian and record executive.