Alex Pentland
Auteur de Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread-The Lessons from a New Science
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Alex Pentland
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Pentland, Alex
- Nom légal
- Pentland, Alexander Paul
- Autres noms
- Pentland, Sandy
- Date de naissance
- 1951-09-03
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 394
- Popularité
- #61,534
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 8
- ISBN
- 23
- Langues
- 5
I came to this book after reading Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capital. In this book Zuboff made Pentland one of her chief boogeymen of a reductive behavioural science, heir to B.F. Skinner’s lab rats.
One of Pentland’s long term initiatives is to create a digital commons where scientists roam freely analyzing our digital breadcrumbs and help us solve very large societal problems including the spread of infectious diseases, urban transportation, poverty, degradation of natural habitat..
All worthy ends.
I couldn’t agree more with him that greater cooperation could lead to some terrific breakthroughs of these and other intractable problems if the data were secure, and if the behemoth data aggregators like Google, facebook, amazon, and others couldn’t use the datasets to beat their commercial competitors into submission.
And as long as we retained ownership of our data.… (plus d'informations)