Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Kenneth Cukier

This revelatory exploration of big data, which refers to our newfound ability to crunch vast amounts of information, analyze it instantly and draw profound and surprising conclusions from it, discusses how it will change our lives and what we can do to protect ourselves from its hazards. 75,000 first printing.

A Revolution that Will Transform how We Live, Work, and Think

Big Data

Francis de Véricourt

“Cukier and his co-authors have a more ambitious project than Kahneman and Harari. They don’t want to just point out how powerfully we are influenced by our perspectives and prejudices—our frames. They want to show us that these frames are tools, and that we can optimise their use.” —Forbes From pandemics to populism, AI to ISIS, wealth inequity to climate change, humanity faces unprecedented challenges that threaten our very existence. The essential tool that will enable humanity to find the best way foward is defined in Framers by internationally renowned authors Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and Francis de Véricourt. To frame is to make a mental model that enables us to make sense of new situations. Frames guide the decisions we make and the results we attain. People have long focused on traits like memory and reasoning, leaving framing all but ignored. But with computers becoming better at some of those cognitive tasks, framing stands out as a critical function—and only humans can do it. This book is the first guide to mastering this human ability. Illustrating their case with compelling examples and the latest research, authors Cukier, Mayer-Schönberger, and de Véricourt examine: · Why advice to “think outside the box” is useless · How Spotify beat Apple by reframing music as an experience · How the #MeToo twitter hashtag reframed the perception of sexual assault · The disaster of framing Covid-19 as equivalent to seasonal flu, and how framing it akin to SARS delivered New Zealand from the pandemic Framers shows how framing is not just a way to improve how we make decisions in the era of algorithms—but why it will be a matter of survival for humanity in a time of societal upheaval and machine prosperity.

Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

Framers

Viktor Mayer Schönberger

Big data : la revolución de los datos masivos

Homework assignments that learn from students. Courses tailored to fit individual pupils. Textbooks that talk back. This is tomorrow’s education landscape, thanks to the power of big data. These advances go beyond online courses. As the New York Times-bestselling authors of Big Data explain, the truly fascinating changes are actually occurring in how we measure students’ progress and how we can use that data to improve education for everyone, in real time, both on- and offline. Learning with Big Data offers an eye-opening, insight-packed tour through these new trends, for educators, administrators, and readers interested in the latest developments in business and technology.

The Future of Education

Learning With Big Data

Viktor Mayer-Schoenberger

Francis de Vericourt

How Humans Can Thrive in the Age of the Machine

Missy Cummings

Jacob Parakilas

Hannah Bryce

Heather Roff

"The rise of AI must be better managed in the near term in order to mitigate longer term risks and to ensure that AI does not reinforce existing inequalities"--Publisher.

Artificial Intelligence

Wird der Mensch durch künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik überflüssig? Cukier, Mayer-Schönberger und de Véricourt belegen, warum diese Sorge unbegründet ist. Der menschliche Geist besitzt die einzigartige Fähigkeit, über Framing eigene Deutungsmuster zu erstellen, etwa um Informationen einzuordnen, Vorhersagen über die Zukunft zu treffen und auf ganz neue Lösungswege zu stoßen. Die Autoren beschreiben, wie Framing funktioniert, warum der Ratschlag, »out of the box« zu denken, nutzlos ist und wieso Spotify und nicht Apple das Musikerlebnis revolutioniert hat. Und warum es ein Framing-Desaster war, COVID-19 mit der saisonalen Grippe gleichzusetzen. Framers zeigt uns nicht nur, wie wir im Zeitalter der Algorithmen bessere Entscheidungen fällen können, sondern auch, wie Framing das menschliche Überleben im Zeitalter der Maschinen und Unruhen sichert.

Wie wir bessere Entscheidungen treffen und warum uns Maschinen um diese Stärke immer beneiden werden

Viktor Mayer-Schonberger

New and expanded edition. An International Bestseller - Over One Million Copies Sold! Shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. Since Aristotle, we have fought to understand the causes behind everything. But this ideology is fading. In the age of big data, we can crunch an incomprehensible amount of information, providing us with invaluable insights about the what rather than the why. We're just starting to reap the benefits: tracking vital signs to foresee deadly infections, predicting building fires, anticipating the best moment to buy a plane ticket, seeing inflation in real time and monitoring social media in order to identify trends. But there is a dark side to big data. Will it be machines, rather than people, that make the decisions? How do you regulate an algorithm? What will happen to privacy? Will individuals be punished for acts they have yet to commit? In this groundbreaking and fascinating book, two of the world's most-respected data experts reveal the reality of a big data world and outline clear and actionable steps that will equip the reader with the tools needed for this next phase of human evolution.

Kenneth Cukier

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