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Tim O'Reilly, 'The Oracle of Silicon Valley', explores how digital technology is restructuring every business, every job, and every sector of society

About the Author

Tim O'Reilly is widely recognised as the leading thinker of Silicon Valley. As the founder and CEO of the publishing company O'Reilly Media, he has become famous for spotting technology with world-shaking potential - from launching the world's first commercial website in 1993, via popularising terms like 'Web 2.0' and 'OpenSource' in the early 2000s, to advising the White House on its tech policies over the last decade. O'Reilly is also a partner of the venture capital firm O'Reilly AlphaTech, and sits on the boards of Maker Media, Code for America, PeerJ, Civis Analytics and PopVox. He lives in Oakland, California.

Reviews

Tim O’Reilly has been at the cutting edge of the Internet since it went commercial.
*New York Times*

A punchy and provocative book . . . What’s The Future is an insightful and heartfelt plea, daring us to reimagine a better economy and society . . . A jaunty read with a compelling narrative of how technology interweaves with the real world.
*Financial Times*

O’Reilly’s ability to quickly identify nascent trends is unparalleled.
*Wired*

Silicon Valley’s leading intellectual.
*Inc.*

One of the most influential pioneers and thinkers of the internet age.
*Observer*

Tech’s most valuable teacher.
*Forbes*

The ultimate tech industry thought leader.
*Scientific American*

The man who can really can make a whole industry happen.
*Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google*

If people want ideas about the future, they should look to O’Reilly to point them out.
*Newsweek*

For anyone who wants to know how to prepare for the future – and how we might shape that future in ways that broadly benefit society, not just technological or entrepreneurial elites – WTF? is an indispensable guide.
*Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn*

Tim O’Reilly’s creative insights and moral clarity have made him the trusted guide to waves of technology now sweeping the planet. If you want a better future, don’t just read this book, but make sure your friends do, too.
*Erik Brynjolfsson, co-author of THE SECOND MACHINE AGE*

Lots of people are worried about new technology and its impact on the economy. Will automation make humans obsolete? Will platform businesses become giant monopolies? Will the online economy kill the suburbs? How will tech affect inequality? These questions are hard to answer, but media entrepreneur Tim O’Reilly . . . [doesn’t] shy away from the task . . . [WTF?] contemplates how economic systems can be transformed to spread the benefits of new technology more equitably.
*Bloomberg*

Defiantly optimistic . . . O’Reilly is inquisitive, sourcing ideas and thoughts from across history and disciplines, while the book is littered with quotes from literature, and by historical figures, entrepreneurs, economists, and friends in high places.
*Quartz*

So many insights, so much history, so much of our future by the consummate insider who is as much a part of the story as the people and ideas he writes about – I was learning something on more or less every page.
*Dr. James Manyika, Director, McKinsey Global Institute*

Tim has been an astute observer of both the successes and the excesses of Silicon Valley. This provocative book distils the lessons he has learned about the power of technology to shape our economy and our lives.
*Hal Varian, Chief Economist, Google*

If anyone knows how to leverage the power of social media, it’s Tim O’Reilly.
*Fast Company*

Draws on decades of experience covering tech to illustrate how increasingly intelligent machines are changing the way we work and how they could impact the way we address our most pressing social concerns.
*Publishers Weekly*

O’Reilly highlights the big (and sometimes unexpected) questions we really should be asking about the future of tech, how we shape it, regulate it, and ensure it has the values we want for business, government and society.
*Nesta*

If you’ve heard the term Open Source software or Web 2.0 then you’re familiar with the work of Tim O’Reilly, who’s had a big hand in framing each of those even bigger ideas, shaping the debate about the future of the present day enchantment with technology.
*Free Thinking*

O’Reilly has an uncanny knack for charting what’s ahead. In WTF?, he shows us know he does it. At a time of sweeping change, it is a bracing and an exhilarating read.
*Anne-Marie Slaughter, President and CEO, New America*