Just think about how much time we spend setting up our CRM and To do list apps, when a simple list in a notebook might have actually been faster.
And while the technology of everything from dating apps to GPS, may make things more efficient, do they actually limit our ability to see the wider world, and in so doing make us cogs in a wheel that sacrifice our humanity and our sense of wonder. That what author and distinguished scholar Edward Tenner looks at in The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can't Do
My conversation with Edward Tenner: