Reality wreck
This week's debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden highlighted how even the truth has become a partisan issue. Can reality be reclaimed?
This week's debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden highlighted how even the truth has become a partisan issue. Can reality be reclaimed?
"Breaking up Facebook could take 10 years. By the time that happened, the landscape of social media would look nothing like it does today."
“A good portion of the applications we received were people who were thinking about applying next year and decided to accelerate it.”
In this interview with Michael Schrage we discuss his new book “Recommendation Engines.”
"We found that the overall happiness or unhappiness of a county's population was an abnormally strong predictor of how it voted."
Sinan Aral argues that social media has both promise and peril. To reap the benefits of these technologies we need to better understand them.
“...it's overwhelmingly human activities – in particular combustion of fossil fuels – that can explain observed global temperature increases."
"A more diverse, talented workforce exposes your company to new people and new ideas...and it can help open new markets.”
“Emissions that don't happen between now and 2030 are going to reduce warming a lot more than the same emission reductions after 2060.”
“Restructuring subsidies and payment deferrals are options that are especially suited for small businesses and should be targeted at them."