Brynjolfsson on the Economy; Pentland on Big Data for the Public Good; Andrew McAfee on Service-sector Productivity
IDE leaders tackle the hottest issues of the day; watch the videos
IDE Director Erik Brynjolfsson discussed the state of the U.S. economy and the future of labor with Bloomberg’s Matt Miller, Scarlet Fu and Joe Weisenthal on “What’d You Miss?” Watch the Oct. 18 video here.
Also, MIT Professor Sandy Pentland presented a keynote address at the recent Cambridge Cyber Summit on the beneficial uses of big data. The key is to get safe access to open algorithms for the public good, he said. OPAL is a pilot program toward this end. More from the event can be found here.
And, Phalana Tiller of The Drucker Institute’s digital magazine, talks with Andrew McAfee, Co-Director of the MIT IDE, about ways that leaders can best prepare for new technologies that promise to raise service productivity. Watch the interview here.
