Simply, deceptively simple, what can we learn from the history presented by LePore? Given the arc of that history, and where we are now (Wylie and O’Neil), where do you see the use of Big Data and algorithms leading us in business management?

Quantitative Methods

Begin reading If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future (Lepore, 2020).
Read the letters to The New Yorker editor Download letters to The New Yorker editor: Lepore’s book. (attached)
Prepare for our book club next week, pondering these questions.
1.) Simply, deceptively simple, what can we learn from the history presented by LePore?

2.) Given the arc of that history, and where we are now (Wylie and O’Neil), where do you see the use of Big Data and algorithms leading us in business management?

3.) As a society? See PDF attachments for resources