Nick Polson and James ScottAIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together (St. Martin’s Press, 2018) Michael J. Casey and Paul VignaThe Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything (St. Martin’s Press, 2018) Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas RamgeReinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data (Basic Books, 2018) Separating substance from hype is perhaps the biggest challenge businesses face when thinking about new technology, because no other field is as riddled with exaggerated promises and utopian fantasies. This year’s best business books on technology and innovation look at three of the hottest drivers of change in today’s economy — AI, blockchain, and big data — and do their best to distinguish what’s real in these technologies from what’s just for show. Most books on AI fall into one of two categories: prophetic tracts forecasting the arrival of the utopia of self-driving cars and permanent leisure, or, more commonly, dystopian tracts envisioning a future in which robots take all our jobs and people are left to fend for themselves in a world without work. With AIQ: How People and Machines Are Smarter Together, Nick Polson and James Scott take a different, and much-needed, approach, offering up a rigorous yet surprisingly accessible…