Artificial intelligence, the tech revolution and the future of consulting

I write those words as both a means of advice, to readers, and as an admonition, to companies. Far too many businesses are not ready for this change too few are even aware that change is afoot so preparing for this event is critical to the health of the economy and the expansion of the workforce as a whole. I refer, specifically, to the rise of artificial intelligence (A.I.) and the proliferation of big data. "The power of artificial intelligence is the ability to move the role of the machine to the left in The Knowledge Funnel, away from pure manual coding by a human, to computer programs that write themselves and eventually to heuristic identification and algorithm creation at some point in the near future." In other words, consultants need to offer value that exceeds what technology will soon be able to do by itself.