Tag: quantification

The Business of Human Emotion

The Business of Human Emotion

Understanding emotion is vital to success in business, but how can businesses come to grips with emotion, effectively and ethically? What do scientific studies have to teach us about attempts to automate the study of emotion, and what are the human alternatives?

Digital Addiction and My Year without an iPhone

Digital Addiction and My Year without an iPhone

Digital devices come with an emotional hook hidden within the appearance of quantified progress. It’s difficult to deny that progress is being made when the numbers keep going up.

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?