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Popular culture used to have a relatively clear center. Films, television, radio, magazines and major music labels helped determine which songs people heard, which celebrities became famous and which ideas entered everyday conversation. Audiences...
For much of the modern economy, business strategy was built around a simple assumption: the more efficiently companies could connect different parts of the world, the better. Manufacturing could move to lower-cost locations, components...
For a long time, business growth was measured in familiar terms: more customers, higher revenue, new markets and larger teams. Expansion was often treated as proof that a company was moving in the right...
For decades, business decisions followed a familiar rhythm. Managers collected reports, analysts examined spreadsheets, executives debated forecasts, and only then did a company decide what to do. Artificial intelligence is beginning to compress that...