How to Speak Machine takes a reference from a 1999 BBC David Bowie interview where Bowie describes the Internet as a “both exhilarating and terrifying” critical event for humanity, and goes on to explain what that really means in human terms to businesses, society, and our future. He demystifies why computers are good at what they do, unpacks how artificial intelligence and machine learning work, and then describes how Silicon Valley has reshaped the way products and services get made and everyone else needs to catch up or get left behind.