And yet if science and technology are the heroes of this book, there is the risk in the age of Big Data about becoming too starry-eyed about what they might accomplish. There is no reason to conclude that the affairs of men are becoming more predictable. The opposite may well be true. The same sciences that uncover the laws of nature are making the organization of society more complex. Technology is completely changing the way we relate to one another. Because of the Internet, “the whole context, all the equations, all the dynamics of the propagation of information change,” I was told by Tim
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