The Future of Analytics and Competitive Advantage

Moderator: Derek Thompson

Panelist: Nate Silver

Analytics are good for winning. But is the analytics revolution good for the world? Or have various industries and games become too efficient in ways that increase inequality, reduce quality, and encourage businesses, teams, and individuals to optimize for the wrong thing? In a wide-ranging conversation about sports, media, business, and beyond Nate Silver (On the Edge) and Derek Thompson (Abundance) discuss the cultural fallout of the moneyball-ification of everything.