AFR: Innovation relies on both big data and embracing counter-intuitive ideas
Carlo Ratti and Dirk Helbing published an opinion article in The Australian Financial Review.
external pageThe article was published in the online version of The Australian Financial Review. external pageCarlo Ratti directs the Senseable City Laboratory at the MIT. Dirk Helbing is Professor of Computational Social Science at ETH in Zurich.
"But with centralised algorithms coming to manage every facet of society, data-driven technocracy is threatening to overwhelm innovation and democracy. This outcome should be avoided at all costs. Decentralised decisionmaking is crucial for the enrichment of society. Data-driven optimisation, conversely, derives solutions from a predetermined paradigm, which, in its current form, often excludes the transformational or counter-intuitive ideas that propel humanity forward," authors wrote.