The Age of Metrics
Author: RNFutureTense
Anand Giridharadas welcomes us to the ‘Age of Metrics’. Mr Giridharadas is a columnist for the New York Times. Here he talks about our growing obsession with figures. He argues that human beings are now beginning to think like computers.
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