The fear of a data science of the future, where insights and knowledge are automatically generated without asking the right questions, is therefore no more, but also no less, than a collective fantasy. As we have all learnt from history, collective fantasies can be dangerous. Yet, new ...
In reality, such victories of the hunted over the hunter were a fantasy in the cruel world of industrial whaling. The biggest cetacean of them all, the blue whale, had all but disappeared from the Southern Ocean by the time a ban on hunting it was introduced in 1967. ...