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I want to tell you straight off what this story is about: Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job. I don't care what your job is. If you dig ditches, a robot will dig them better. If you're a magazine writer, a robot will write your articles better. If you're a doctor, IBM's Watson will no longer "assist" you in finding the right diagnosis from its database of millions of case studies and journal articles. It will just be a better doctor than you.

innovation is combination. The story of another KIN network in education.

Virtual assistants get infuriating when they fail to do something we expect to be within their capabilities. Researchers are interested in studying how people form expectations about what such systems can and can't do-and how virtual assistants themselves might be designed to nudge us toward only asking things that won't lead to disappointment. One of the research questions is how do you reset a user's expectations on the fly when they're interacting with a virtual assistant.

Fictional story written in the first person by an autonomous bomb disposal robot. Raises fascinating questions about social robotics ethics.

AI being used for driverless cars, energy saving and personal assistants (bots)

You may think you choose to read one story over another, or to watch a particular video rather than all the others clamouring for your attention. But in truth, you are probably manipulated into doing so by publishers using clever machine learning algorithms

Finding useful knowledge nuggets amongst the torrents of data is a skill in itself. Creating insightful stories that bring the data to life is an emergent skill practiced by data journalists. An excellent article with lots of useful references for anyone who aspires to blend data analytics with storytelling.

How should statisticians be communicating with the media? This meeting explores the relationship between statisticians, journalists and the public, and the statistician's role in providing expert statistical comments on media stories. Speakers present their experiences of working with the media, reflecting on the challenges of communicating statistical ideas for non-technical audiences, whilst preserving the integrity of the story

Whilst advocating the use of storytelling to illustrate key facts in data, the article highlights the detrimental side of storytelling, which can undermine good decision making. When we are trying to build a story from data we fail to recognize that most stories we are supposed to glean from data cause cognitively dissonance.

"Ashley Good from Toronto, Canada is recognized as no less than "a world expert on failure". Working on several development projects around the world she was faced with the need to address the inefficiencies, and sometimes ineffectiveness of development work. Based on her experience she created AdmittingFailure.com and FailForward.org in 2010 to spark a shift in how civil society perceives and talks about failure. In her opening keynote titled "What's So Great About Failure?" at FailCon Oslo June 6, 2013 she shares her story and some ideas for the audience to apply the Fail Forward approach to their contexts."

Learning from failure stories

The best stories become etched on our hearts, igniting information and giving it the ability to withstand the test of time. Duarte melds the power of story with striking visuals to turn ideas into powerful presentations that help you activate your audience, and leave them forever transformed.

There is so much unverified 'noise' on the web that it is difficult to know what to trust. Storyful attempts to provide some veracity to video stories.

"The problem is that too many 'lessons learned' programmes fail. Without falling into the trap of sweeping generalisations, I would suggest that more often than not the story itself is the problem; they just aren't interesting enough; they are shallow; they lack the richness that is needed to engage the intended audience; and they lack a structure that reflects the way adults learn. And that is the bottom line, all too often they just don't work in relation to the ways in which adults learn - I would argue in the vast majority of practice that there is actually little or no consideration for the the target audience of a lesson learned (the adult as a learner)."

Although we'll be writing a lot here about the potential of social media to help people tell their stories, share ideas, start and continue conversations, it is seldom enough on its own. In fact, it is still very much a minority medium in the field of local community action - however powerful it can be, as shown by the work of hyperlocal bloggers (examples here, and we'll be mapping more).

How the digital age is changing the way we tell stories. A community to explore the Future of Storytelling