Dan Davies The unaccountability machine

why big systems make terrible decisions

"When we avoid taking a decision, what happens to it? In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies examines why markets, institutions and even governments systematically generate outcomes that everyone involved claims not to want. He casts new light on the writing of Stafford Beer, a legendary economist who argued in the 1950s that we should regard organisations as artificial intelligences, capable of taking decisions that are distinct from the intentions of their members. Management cybernetics was...

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Engels | 294 pagina's | Profile Books, London | 2024

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Martin Sixsmith | Daniel Sixsmith Putin and the return of history

how the Kremlin rekindled the Cold War

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Engels | 357 pagina's | Bloomsbury Continuum, London | 2024

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Daniel R. Brooks | Salvatore J. Agosta A darwinian survival guide

hope for the twenty-first century

"Guided by the Four Laws of Biotics, the book details how technological humanity should interact with the biosphere and each other in accordance with Darwinian principles, which illuminate a middle ground between unacceptable apocalypse or unattainable utopia, with two hopeful options: alter our behavior now at great expense based on Darwinian principles and extend current civilization, or fail to respond, fall and rebuild in accordance with those same principles"--

Engels | 343 pagina's | The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts | 2024

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