Description: A skillful and lucid (The Wall Street Journal) way of thinking about efficiency, challenging our obsession with it—and offering a new understanding of how to benefit from the powerful potential of serendipity.
Algorithms, multitasking, the sharing economy, life hacks: our culture can't get enough of efficiency. One of the great promises of the Internet and big data revolutions is the idea that we can improve the processes and routines of our work and personal lives to get more done in less time than we ever have before. There is no doubt that we're performing at higher levels and moving at unprecedented speed, but what if we're headed in the wrong direction?
Melding the long-term history of technology with the latest headlines and findings of computer science and social science, The Efficiency Paradox questions our ingrained assumptions about efficiency, persuasively showing how relying on the algorithms of digital platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts, missed opportunities, and, above all, an inability to break out of established patterns. Edward Tenner reveals what we and our institutions, when equipped with an astute combination of artificial intelligence and trained intuition, can learn from the random and unexpected.
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Book Title: The Efficiency Paradox What Big Data Can't Do Format: Paperback
Genre: General/trade
Narrative Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Name: Efficiency Paradox : What Big Data Can't Do
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Subject: Knowledge Capital, Media Studies, Industrial Management, Intelligence (Ai) & Semantics, Self-Management / Time Management, Databases / Data Mining
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Edward Tenner
Item Length: 8 in
Subject Area: Computers, Social Science, Self-Help, Business & Economics
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
