[Book Review] Life in the age of the algorithm
Thursday, January 12, 2017 - 15:01
in Mathematics & Economics
Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist of Amazon, has written a book— Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You—that offers techno-insiders a guide for making the world a more efficient self-branding mechanism. Reviewer Cathy O'Neil dissects Weigend's vision of the future of big data, with an eye toward questions of class, discrimination, and access. Author: Cathy O'Neil