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James Surowiecki writes that this year's best business books on technology and innovation look at three of the hottest drivers of change in today's economy -- AI, blockchain, and big data -- and do their best to distinguish what's real in these technologies from what's just for show. With AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together, academics Nick Polson and James Scott take a new, and much-needed, approach, offering up a rigorous yet surprisingly accessible explanation of how AI actually works, coupled with a keen interrogation of its strengths and weaknesses. In The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything, financial journalists Michael J. Casey and Paul Vigna provide a subtle and useful investigation into what blockchain actually is, and what we might reasonably expect it to accomplish. And in Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data, the best business book of the year on technology and innovation, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge argue that we're witnessing the advent of an economy in which data matters far more than capital, a change that represents "a fundamental reorganization of our economy."

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