…we need to change how we make policy. Right now we make big decisions as if we were pulling a lever. But decision making has to be a persistent project: We need to constantly update and revise our thinking as if we were making software or iPods. Today we do “health care reform” or “Afghanistan policy” and then move on. That’s lethal. Policy has to be flexible and constantly adapted to fit a changing environment.
On Adapting to Sandpiles by Joshua Cooper Ramo
Also, he raises a good point that this deluge of data seems to help us make decisions but up to a certain point. Above a certain threshold, it actually obfuscates reality because the overwhelming amount of data confuses people without a reliable way to interpret it. Thus this is the paradox of information: it increases transparency as well as obfuscates reality. Data without deciphering its meaning is dangerous; Without understanding, it’s useless.
Source: seedmagazine.com
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