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Mindless Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans

Hardcover • 2014 • English • 1. edition

Mindless Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans

By Simon Head

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We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs)—the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply their disembodied expertise to transactions between human...Show more

Business strategy
Business ethics and social responsibility
Entrepreneurship / Start-ups

Book details

ISBN

9780465018444

Publisher

Basic Books

Published year

2014

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Mindless Why Smarter Machines are Making Dumber Humans

Format

Hardcover

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