As we program machines to be more like humans, how will they know what we value, if we don’t know ourselves? The notion of robots gaining consciousness is beginning to become a reality, but the future of human happiness is dependent on our ability to teach machines what we value the most today. Featuring pragmatic solutions drawing on economics, emerging technologies, and positive psychology, Heartificial Intelligence provides a road map to help readers embrace the present and better define their future. Using fictional vignettes to help listeners relate to larger concepts, this book paints a vivid portrait of how our lives might look in either a dystopia of robot dominance or a utopia where we use technology to enhance our natural abilities and evolve into a long-lived, super-intelligent, and caring species.

Tactical Transparency is based largely on interviews with leaders and communicators in companies that have achieved measurable success though the implementation of transparency strategies. This book is written for those executives and professional communicators who are looking to learn about and create a transparency strategy for their organization in order to remain competitive. This book will: Help organizations determine their readiness for transparency and the steps that need to be taken to get ready Explain the business rationale for transparency and explore the risks inherent in maintaining a non-transparent relationship with constituent audiences Provide “how-tos” to show how a company can effectively communicate its transparency  Identify aspects of blog/new media netiquette–an important but often misunderstood part of engaging in transparency.