Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2012

It's an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. These are all pretty common assertions in modern business/tech journalism and management literature. Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

If 19th-century urban planners had had access to big data, machine learning techniques, and modern management theory, these tools would not have helped them. Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

But the same tendencies can be seen in pretty much any case where there are conflicting opinions — which ought to make them of interest to anybody in a management or other decision-making role. I wrote a post here at hbr.org on whether the Internet era has been a time of world-changing innovation or a relative disappointment.

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