Omnipotent or Useless

There’s a lot of nail-biting currently about the potential impact of the next wave of technology, particularly artificial intelligence. In her book, Hello, World, mathematician Hannah Fry described one aspect—the trusting side—of our often paradoxical relationship with technology: “It’s like the saying among airline pilots that the best flying team has three components: a pilot,

Diversity Beats Ability

According to Steven Johnson, “The causal link between diversity and group intelligence is one of the most robust findings in the social sciences over the past twenty years.” Johnson considers The Difference, by University of Michigan professor Scott E. Page, to be the most important work in this field. “Homogeneous groups tend to fall into