Tag: machines

Time, for Business

Time, for Business

Time is at the heart of the struggle over the culture of business, and has been for generations.

What Counts as a Human Business?

What Counts as a Human Business?

Let’s get real about this. How can we tell an authentically human business from a business that simply claims to be human?

The Business of Human Technology – Episode 5

The Business of Human Technology – Episode 5

A transcript of the 5th episode of the podcast This Human Business. The subject of this episode is the relationship between technology and humanity in business, in the context of the techlash, and its growing skepticism of a positive role for digital technology in human society. Can tech culture be humanized?

The Story of John Henry the Data-Driven Man

The Story of John Henry the Data-Driven Man

Those firms that are pushing qualitative research to get faster and cheaper, competing on the quantitative terms of supercomputers, are trapped what I call the John Henry effect.