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Humans are Underrated try2

Accepted submission by tt4122068 at 2015-08-14 23:19:59
Techonomics

Tyler Cowen reviews Geoff Calvin's new book Humans are Underrated in an article at the Washington Post. [washingtonpost.com]

Here is one bit from the review:

My favorite parts of the book are about the military, an area where most other popular authors on automation and smart software have hesitated to tread. In this book you can read about how much of America’s military prowess comes from superior human performance and not just from technology. Future gains will result from how combat participants are trained, motivated, and taught to work together and trust each other, and from better after-action performance reviews. Militaries are inevitably hierarchical, but when they process and admit their mistakes, they can become rapidly more efficient.


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