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Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

By Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Francis de Véricourt
Cover of Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

We’re always told that humans make bad decisions and that more data is better. But this is backwards: people are actually good at decisions because we use mental models and can envision new realities outside of data. Great outcomes don’t depend so much on the final moment of choosing but on generating better alternatives to choose between. That’s framing. It’s a cognitive muscle we can strengthen to improve our lives, work and future — to meet our moment of economic upheaval, social tensions and existential threats. Framers shows how.

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Publication date:
May 2021
Publisher:
WH Allen
ISBN:
978-0753554982