in the end, robots don't lay brick, or carpeting, or install light fixtures, or hang wallpaper -- or do hundreds of other jobs that require human hands, math and labor.

Our algorithms should counter our biases, not amplify them. But that only happens if we're willing to acknowledge we have them.

The company that invented its own holiday -- Prime Day -- is in a unique position to shape the views of consumers on sustainability.

Among the media-related developments I'll be watching: our deepening trust issues with information channels that can be manipulated with ease.

Aspen, Colorado has decided to have a drone show rather than fireworks this 4th, with an eye on wildfire concerns.

Brand power is awesome, yet most marketers focus on on the back end of the sales funnel - chasing a sale.

Browser cookies are effectively going away as a tool for managing online advertising.

Duration weighting provides an opportunity for the media and creative to be more aligned. For a video to be watched all the way through, placement and audience have to align, but the message itself must be engaging.

Politically and socially, we're in the middle of a swing to the right. But this will be countered inevitably with a swing to the left.

Here comes Libra -- a planned digital currency developed by Facebook, designed to run on the Libra blockchain. But leaders in the crypto space are hardly cheering Facebook's arrival.