Month: March 2016

The Achilles’ Heel of Democracy

Convincing a single, isolated, rational individual to join you in a war can be difficult, especially when that individual stands to personally bear the responsibility for the outcome of their decision. However, put that very same individual in an agitated mob of thirty thousand other people and it might be a whole different story. In a huge assembly, it feels like no single person is really on the hook for the collective opinions and decisions of the body.The Achilles’ Heel of Democracy

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Data on 1.5 Million Verizon Enterprise Customers Up for Sale

“Ask yourself why the company that writes the annual DBIR has itself been breached? The answer is that the cyber companies receiving billions of dollars of funding are spending it on drive-time radio and other marketing hype; not enough on software development,” Prisco said, “It requires more than just the usual superficial understanding of one’s adversary to create an analytic cyber product capable of keeping up with the bad guys.”Data on 1.5 Million Verizon Enterprise Customers Up for Sale

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99% of people working as servants to the 1%

And so we’re trapped in an economy that has become all about efficiency — so much so that most of us now use the words “efficiency” and “productivity” interchangeably. Productivity is about “producing” not just actual, tangible things, but true, real, value-creating breakthroughs. But the most “efficient” company is just software running software. The most “efficient” economy is just 99% of people working as servants to the 1%.Umair Haque is Director of Havas Media Labs