Mindless: Why Smarter Machines Are Making Dumber Humans

by Simon Head

Book Overview

We live in the age of Computer Business Systems (CBSs) -- the highly complex, computer-intensive management programs on which large organizations increasingly rely. In Mindless, Simon Head argues that these systems have come to trump human expertise, dictating the goals and strategies of a wide array of businesses, and de-skilling the jobs of middle class workers in the process. CBSs are especially dysfunctional, Head argues, when they apply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465018440
• ISBN13: 9780465018444
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.3"