Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

De: Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Thomas Ramge

Narrado por: John Chancer

From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete

In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schörger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things: think Uber instead of Ford, or Airbnb instead of Hyatt.

This is the dawn of the era of data capitalism. Will it be an age of prosperity or of calamity? This book provides the indispensable roadmap for securing a better future.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge argue that big data will transform our economies on a fundamental level...Thought-provoking."—Science

"A thoughtful volume about the digital and data-driven future...Emphasizes the human choices and market and societal opportunities that data will enable."—Forbes

"Mayer-Schönberger and Ramge offer several intriguing ideas for limited the excesses of data-rich capitalism...These ideas won't get much of a hearing in today's Washington. But the shift toward an information-based economy will outlast the current administration. Eventually, this country will have a government interested in the best parts of modern capitalism while restraining the worst."—David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review

"[One of] this year's best business books on technology and innovation"—James Surowiecki, Strategy + Business

"If this overall analysis is right, then we are going to have to start thinking more about such radical ideas. Data capitalism can deliver phenomenal services, as Amazon has shown. But it may also undermine some of the foundations on which our societies have been built."—Financial Times

"In 2013's Big Data, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger...described the necessity of using digital information to better connect with customers and train automated systems... Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data...expands that vision as dramatically as the title implies. Big data, the authors argue, is an omnipresent force that will create a new world--one in which large public companies may no longer be relevant at all."—Fortune

"Smoothly written and provocative, Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data is one of those rare pop future books that takes fundamental economics seriously... Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Thomas Ramge argue that the data's rise means money's decline, that meaningful economic growth overwhelmingly depends on data innovation, and that regulating market competition requires rethinking data access."—F&D

"A welcoming and comprehensible narrative featuring interesting profiles of key personalities driving the Big Data revolution...The future marketplace of goods, services, and ideas will benefit from a wide readership of this instructive study."—Booklist

"An unnerving yet plausible portrait of a future in which 'finance capitalism will be as old-fashioned as Flower Power.'"—Kirkus

Lackluster content

Honestly, I expected a lot more from this book. After I finished, I felt like it was just a waste of words. (I have the physical copy too). It’s as if it wasn’t really saying anything. That’s my opinion. It’s also ridiculous to say our future would be incredibly social... When clearly with all this social media, we don’t even interact with each other anymore.

What a load of...

Really looked forward to this book based on title and reviews - forced myself to the end in hope that I might find something insightful. Big Reveal: Data often helps us to make better decisions. beyond that, techno utopian claptrap that is ignorant of history and human behavior, and conflates price with judgement, and markets as the place where we will all self-actualize in data risk collaboration, just as long as we ensure diversity in our AI. My head hurts. It's like Paul Coehlo and Mark Zuckerberg had a love child. Take two aspirin before reading.