Il Potere Segreto Dei Matematici (2000) - Plot & Excerpts
The book The Numerati is basically a book about how math and numbers can actually influence and affect a person's life in everyday life for examples to workers, shoppers and etc. For workers, the employers can watch over you and use numbers to determine if they are efficient workers and rate them. I actually enjoy doing math but most people do not like math and they try to avoid it, but from this book, I learned that math and numbers can actually influence one's life and affect the he or she lives and I was very surprised and entertained by this book. I recommend this book to others. The author, a “BusinessWeek” journalist, explores the ramifications of the existent and emerging age of information, in which number crunchers tabulate everyone’s data, from the kind of shampoo they buy to their phone calls to how long they hover their mouse over an ad. Baker shows how data’s super-availability can be used for both intrusion (privacy issues at work, in government, misuse by authority) and for improving our lives (up to the minute medical biometrics, much more savvy shoppers getting customized deals, better cyber-dating). It’s a fair look at how algorithms can change our lives, very readable, and refreshingly free of Chicken Little panic – though perhaps as a journalist, Baker is a bit too disinterested to thoroughly envision the possible extreme outcomes of the data age.
What do You think about Il Potere Segreto Dei Matematici (2000)?
I learned not to use sites like this one that collect data about me.
—china
Not as good as Supercrunchers, of the same topic, but I liked it.
—chelsey
Quick read -- was expecting more insight and more depth.
—BriannaLust
