Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

Kenneth Cukier

Francis de Véricourt

“Cukier and his co-authors have a more ambitious project than Kahneman and Harari. They don’t want to just point out how powerfully we are influenced by our perspectives and prejudices—our frames. They want to show us that these frames are tools, and that we can optimise their use.” —Forbes From pandemics to populism, AI to ISIS, wealth inequity to climate change, humanity faces unprecedented challenges that threaten our very existence. The essential tool that will enable humanity to find the best way foward is defined in Framers by internationally renowned authors Kenneth Cukier, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, and Francis de Véricourt. To frame is to make a mental model that enables us to make sense of new situations. Frames guide the decisions we make and the results we attain. People have long focused on traits like memory and reasoning, leaving framing all but ignored. But with computers becoming better at some of those cognitive tasks, framing stands out as a critical function—and only humans can do it. This book is the first guide to mastering this human ability. Illustrating their case with compelling examples and the latest research, authors Cukier, Mayer-Schönberger, and de Véricourt examine: · Why advice to “think outside the box” is useless · How Spotify beat Apple by reframing music as an experience · How the #MeToo twitter hashtag reframed the perception of sexual assault · The disaster of framing Covid-19 as equivalent to seasonal flu, and how framing it akin to SARS delivered New Zealand from the pandemic Framers shows how framing is not just a way to improve how we make decisions in the era of algorithms—but why it will be a matter of survival for humanity in a time of societal upheaval and machine prosperity.

Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

Framers

Wird der Mensch durch künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik überflüssig? Cukier, Mayer-Schönberger und de Véricourt belegen, warum diese Sorge unbegründet ist. Der menschliche Geist besitzt die einzigartige Fähigkeit, über Framing eigene Deutungsmuster zu erstellen, etwa um Informationen einzuordnen, Vorhersagen über die Zukunft zu treffen und auf ganz neue Lösungswege zu stoßen. Die Autoren beschreiben, wie Framing funktioniert, warum der Ratschlag, »out of the box« zu denken, nutzlos ist und wieso Spotify und nicht Apple das Musikerlebnis revolutioniert hat. Und warum es ein Framing-Desaster war, COVID-19 mit der saisonalen Grippe gleichzusetzen. Framers zeigt uns nicht nur, wie wir im Zeitalter der Algorithmen bessere Entscheidungen fällen können, sondern auch, wie Framing das menschliche Überleben im Zeitalter der Maschinen und Unruhen sichert.

Francis de Véricourt

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