When Artificial Intelligence Meets Actual Life

Six years ago, Fast Company's editorial team had an insight: that Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google were increasingly expanding into contiguous businesses. Their competition, we believed, was pushing all of them to be even more ambitious-and pushing everyone else to innovate at a faster rate. We called this "The Great Tech War of 2012" in a cover story that set the framework for how a new wave of business activity would unfold.

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