Taming the tech beast
Why we need dialogue and deliberation to regulate technology, the trouble with TED talks, and how Richard Thaler’s nudge principles can be used for good and bad
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Will technology destroy democracy?
Job destruction, fake news, polarisation. Rapid advances in technology are blamed for these. Is that claim justified? Are other factors at play? Who will regulate technology?
Performance monkeys on the TED stage
What started out as an intellectually stimulating event has degenerated into a series of shallow performances
Nudge versus Richard Thaler
It looks inevitable technology companies will outrun the theories of the Nobel Prize winner in Economics. And that is a frightening thought
Who we are is shaped by the questions we ask
This Week: How do you work with adaptive systems, why a tech mindset is not enough, and how do you measure achievement
How may Einstein have thought of God and Aadhaar?
Does God exist? Is eating meat ethical? What about systems like Aadhaar? What about questions like these? A century after Einstein thought a hypothesis to explain the nature of space and time, it stands proven, and has been awarded the Nobel Prize. How may he take these questions on?
Building tech as if people mattered
Book review: In his new book ‘Hit Refresh’, Satya Nadella talks about operating with empathy and technology as a force for social good
An emergent India story
This Week: Amazon’s omni-channel push into Indian retail, an interview with Daniel Kahneman, urban youth and the India story, and reframing the Aadhaar debate
Aadhaar, Twitter and strong opinions, loosely held
We have to deal with complexity—and for that we need space
Less-than-rational actors: An interview with Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman, grandfather of behavioural economics, talks about how the field came to be and the impact it has had
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