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Missed Information - Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future (Paperback)
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Missed Information - Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future (Paperback)
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How better information and better access to it improves the quality
of our decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory
society. Information is power. It drives commerce, protects
nations, and forms the backbone of systems that range from health
care to high finance. Yet despite the avalanche of data available
in today's information age, neither institutions nor individuals
get the information they truly need to make well-informed
decisions. Faulty information and sub-optimal decision-making
create an imbalance of power that is exaggerated as governments and
corporations amass enormous databases on each of us. Who has more
power: the government, in possession of uncounted terabytes of data
(some of it obtained by cybersnooping), or the ordinary citizen,
trying to get in touch with a government agency? In Missed
Information, David Sarokin and Jay Schulkin explore information-not
information technology, but information itself-as a central part of
our lives and institutions. They show that providing better
information and better access to it improves the quality of our
decisions and makes for a more vibrant participatory society.
Sarokin and Schulkin argue that freely flowing information helps
systems run more efficiently and that incomplete information does
just the opposite. It's easier to comparison shop for microwave
ovens than for doctors or hospitals because of information gaps
that hinder the entire health-care system. Better information about
such social ills as child labor and pollution can help consumers
support more sustainable products. The authors examine the opacity
of corporate annual reports, the impenetrability of government
secrets, and emerging techniques of "information foraging." The
information imbalance of power can be reconfigured, they argue,
with greater and more meaningful transparency from government and
corporations.
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