Remember those step-by-step procedures you learned in school for calculations and data processing? Those procedures your teacher told you you’d never need because other people would take care of it? Well those other people work for Google, and those procedures—those operations that result in what is essentially automated reasoning through an algorithm—well, they are changing. And although you may still not remember how to write an algorithm, you better darn well know how to adjust to those changes or your business could face some seriously crappy results. Read more