Kenneth Cukier is a senior editor at The Economist and host of its weekly podcast on technology Babbage. He is also an associate fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. Viktor Mayer-Schonberger is professor of internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Belfer Center of Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Francis de Vericourt is professor of management science and the director of the Center for Decisions, Models and Data at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin.