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Critical Turning Point
By Mike Steep, Founder, Disruptive Technology Program, Stanford School of Engineering
We are living through the most consequential technological shift in human history. Artificial intelligence, automation, and digital transformation are not future threats — they are reshaping industries, organizations, and careers right now.
Critical Turning Point is a practical guide for leaders navigating this moment. Drawing on decades at the forefront of technology invention — from HP and Apple to Microsoft and Xerox PARC — and years directing Stanford's Disruptive Technology Program, Mike Steep delivers a clear-eyed framework for turning disruption into competitive advantage.
This is not a book about fear. It is a book about opportunity — and the decisions leaders must make today to position their organizations for what comes next.
What You Will Learn
- Why most organizations misread the pace and impact of AI adoption
- How to build a technology strategy that outlasts the hype cycle
- What the most resilient companies are doing differently right now
- How to lead your team through uncertainty without losing momentum
Who This Book Is For
Critical Turning Point is written for C-suite executives, senior leaders, association directors, and anyone responsible for steering an organization through technological change.
Other Published Works
Acclaimed books that have shaped how leaders think about technology and innovation
First Light of Day
A Cautionary Tale of Our Future
What is the price of our society's obsession with artificial intelligence? Michael Steep's First Light of Day paints a picture of the not-too-distant future, illuminating the dangers of a world of our own creation, but not of our own design. In so doing, Steep's lucid and heartful narrative makes an impassioned case for each of us to remember our humanity, especially in the digital age.
Praise for First Light of Day
What is the price of our society's obsession with artificial intelligence? Michael Steep's First Light of Day paints a picture of the not-too-distant future, illuminating the dangers of a world of our own creation, but not of our own design. In so doing, Steep's lucid and heartful narrative makes an impassioned case for each of us to remember our humanity, especially in the digital age.
An expansive trip into our future and the technology to take us there. Michael Steep has created a new genre of technological realism that gives the reader a heady combination of science fiction and scientific fact.
Mike Steep gives a gripping look at how artificial intelligence and digital technologies will fundamentally change the future for every individual and organization. In his fictional narrative, he provides a fascinating look at life in the near future based on his treasure trove of experience of more than three decades at the world's most admired technology companies.
Using his Silicon Valley real-world experience, Michael Steep has created a novel exploring big ethical dilemmas as AI surpasses human capabilities. AI is either humanity's saving or its demise. First Light of Day, including its bonus explanation of key-ingredient technologies, gives the reader a front-row seat to a possible future where nationalism, politics, and our essence as humans confront rapid change in technology.
Michael Steep has written an engaging and insightful novel that explores how multiple personal AI assistants like Siri and Alexa, which many of us already use today, are inexorably advancing in their capabilities to the point where they can ultimately develop 'personalities' and 'self-awareness.' The book masterfully weaves insights about the trajectory of these disruptive technologies into a plausible and frightening story that shows how these intelligent assistants coevolving and interacting in unexpected ways can create a dark and dystopian future of severe economic inequality, cybercrime, and conflict. The book is an important and page-turning read for anyone working on, using, and/or concerned about the advances of intrusive Big Data collection and the artificial intelligence applications that feed ravenously on it.
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