"Society will need to shed some of its obsession for causality in exchange for simple correlations: not knowing why but only what."
Kenneth Cukier is the Senior Editor for The Economist, co-authored the New York Times bestseller “Big Data” which has been translated into 20 languages, and is the editor and host of the hugely popular technology podcast Babbage. Now a director at Chatham House and an Associate Fellow at Oxford’s Said Business School, Kenneth was also a fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
An internationally respected journalist, Kenneth was the technology editor of the Wall Street Journal and has written for The New York Times, The Financial Times, the International Herald Tribune and Foreign Affairs.
‘One of the world’s most respected data experts’ - The LSE