How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men [telecom]

How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men

nce, Mad Men ruled advertising. They've now been eclipsed by Math Men - the engineers and data scientists whose province is machines, algorithms, pureed data, and artificial intelligence. Yet Math Men are beleaguered, as Mark Zuckerberg demonstrated when he humbled himself before Congress, in April. Math Men's adoration of data - coupled with their truculence and an arrogant conviction that their "science" is nearly flawless - has aroused government anger, much as Microsoft did two decades ago.

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Posted 5 years ago by Monty Solomon in General Telecommunications Forum

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