Big Data’s Biggest Challenge? Convincing People NOT to Trust Their Judgment

As the amount of data goes up, the importance of human judgment should go down.

by

Andrew McAfee

by

Andrew McAfee

December 09, 2013

Here’s a simple rule for the second machine age we’re in now: as the amount of data goes up, the importance of human judgment should go down.

Andrew McAfee is the cofounder and co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy and the inaugural visiting fellow in Google’s Technology and Society group. He is the author of the new book, The Geek Way, and coauthor with Erik Brynjoflsson of The Second Machine Age.

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