Efficiency Is a Choice

Published August 19, 2018 9:20am ET



The Efficiency Paradox

What Big Data Can’t Do

by Edward Tenner

Knopf, 282 pp., $27.95


The Efficiency Paradox is the most recent in a series of thoughtful books by Edward Tenner, going back to his Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences (1996). This new work is buttressed by an extraordinarily wide range of knowledge but does not always manage to bring its learning into the service of a clear narrative, a clear argument.

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