AI, Tech & Automation
December 31, 2025
AI, like the Internet/World Wide Web, social media and mobile before it, is a key member of the Digital Quad: the four transformational technologies that impact consumers' work and play lives, for better or worse. Image credit: Treecha, Shutterstock
By Mickey Alam Khan
How we co-opt AI in our lives – professionally and personally – will mark the difference between success and failure in the second half of this decade for luxury marketers, retailers and professionals.
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