Sem papas na língua

Gosto de gente assim, gente sem papas na língua, gente capaz de dizer o contrário do que diz a corrente dominante.
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Lembro-me de ler "The Innovator’s Dilemma" sem saber da fama que o livro tinha e achar que o livro era muito, muito bom.
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Primeiro acerca do 'big data':

"In your lecture you suggested that firms are too beholden to data. How does that view fit with the age of big data?
It is truly scary to me. By definition, big data cannot yield complicated descriptions of causality. Especially in healthcare. Almost all of our diseases occur in the intersections of systems in the body. For example, there is a drug that is marketed by Elan BioNeurology called TYSABRI. It was developed for MS [multiple sclerosis]. It turns out that of the people who have MS a proportion respond magnificently to TYSABRI. And others don't. So what do you conclude from this? Is it just a mediocre drug? No. It is that there is one disease but it manifests itself in different ways. How does big data figure out what is the core of what is going on?" (Moi ici: Recordar "Curiosidade do dia"; "Big Data" e "A libertação")

Depois, acerca das universidades:

"So I'd be very surprised if in ten years we don't see hundreds of universities in bankruptcy
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Is this something you lament?It makes me sad because these institutions have a lot of meaning for a lot of people. But on the other side, we should celebrate. People will be so much better served. Because learning becomes a process that means they can learn for their lifetime and get skills for new jobs and it will be customised to their needs. It is hard to argue when you think about the customer."

Depois, acerca da investigação nas universidades:
"We are awash in content that needs to be taught, yet the vast majority of colleges give a large portion of their faculties’ salaries to fund research.
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The problem is the research that most of them generate isn't useful to anyone except other academics. In business there are five ‘A’ journals in which you have to publish to get promoted to tenure. In one of those five the average article is read by 12 people. If only one in every five research universities stopped doing research, society wouldn't be impaired in the least.
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Given your research on innovation, I am surprised to hear you say that. Surely innovation can come from unlikely places, including esoteric research?
I don't think you are right. Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before. And most universities are organised so you don't have those intersections. They are siloed. Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process, where you have to publish to journals which are very narrow, stands in the way of great research."
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Trechos retirados de "Clayton Christensen: Still disruptive"