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Auto repair, piloting, skiing, perhaps even management: these are skills that yield to application, hard work, and native talent. But forecasting an…
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Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are…
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It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets…
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Bubbles and crashes are textbook examples of collective decision making gone wrong. In a bubble, all of the conditions that make groups…
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If small groups are included in the decision-making process, then they should be allowed to make decisions. If an organization sets up…
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Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.
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Groups are only smart when there is a balance between the information that everyone in the group shares and the information that…
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But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a…
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Paradoxically, the best way for a group to be smart is for each person in it to think and act as independently…
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This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the…
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The fact that cognitive diversity matters does not mean that if you assemble a group of diverse but thoroughly uninformed people, their…
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One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.
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Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.
— Leon Kass
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The artist is the person who invents the means to bridge between biological inheritance and the environments created by technological innovation.
— Marshall McLuhan
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It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a…
— Neil Postman
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Productivity and the growth of productivity must be the first economic consideration at all times, not the last. That is the source…
— William E. Simon
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For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come…
— Steve Case
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Geneva has a long history of hosting international organizations, which is part of the reason why CERN is here. CERN has signed…
— Rolf-Dieter Heuer
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Every major technological innovation propels humanity forward to the point of no return.
— Newton Lee
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Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people…
— Hugh Herr
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Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Technological innovation has dramatically lowered the cost of computing, making it possible for large numbers of consumers to own powerful new technologies…
— James Surowiecki
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Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a…
— David Suzuki
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The aspirations of democracy are based on the notion of an informed citizenry, capable of making wise decisions. The choices we are…
— Ann Druyan
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