Books
Book Review: Venture Labor in American Journal of Sociology
Thank you to Vicki Smith for the scholarly review of Venture Labor in the American Journal of Sociology. A great deal has been written about employment risk in the 21st century. Many agree that institutional bases of employment are shifting, jobs and careers have become more tenuous, and risks associated with employment increasingly have been […]
Book Review: Venture Labor in Forbes
Thank you Tom Watson and Forbes for reviewing Venture Labor. They called it “Silicon Alley,” a clumsy play on words meant to evoke an East Coast urban version of the California place where microchips made fortunes grow and digital devices work. It was a marketing play really, designed to lure public funding and convince established business to […]
Why Big Data Won’t Cure Us
The biggest challenge for the use of “big data” in health care is social, not technical. Data-intensive approaches to medicine based on predictive modeling hold enormous potential for solving some of the biggest and most intractable problems of health care. The challenge now is figuring out how people, both patients and providers, will actually use […]