- Data deluge, complexity - experts can process the info better and can come to better conclusions than we can
- We give them parental-like authority
- Big problem
- Experts divide themselves into rigid camps, worshiping their own gurus, eschewing dissent
- We have to take them on and persist in the face of their annoyance
- We have to ask questions about their methodologies
- Google CEO actively looks for the arms-crossed disassociated person in the room
- Democratized expertise - shop girls get a say with the forecasting team for the company
- Best Buy introduced a gambling chip - employees could bet on stuff and they discovered important flaws in projects
"Here's a novel idea to save the planet: Remove the main cause of its woes - homo sapiens. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT - pronounced "vehement") proposes the phasing out the human race. "When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, and evolve (if they believe in evolution)," offers the movement's website. But 'it's going to take all of us going'." See www.vhemt.org SOURCE: Email invite. I thought I was the only one who thought like this. Everyone I know thanks the universe that I didn't study microbiology. I would have developed a human-specific killer virus. WE are the vermin.
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