The rise of the Computational Class
The article posits that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign represents the rise of a 'Computational Class'—a group defined by data-driven decision-making and corporate management styles. It suggests this shift marks a new era in political leadership.
Should Mitt Romney manage to collect 270 electoral votes in November and win the White House, he will have achieved something novel. Yes, he will be the first Mormon to win the presidency. He will also be the first corporate CEO to have successfully gained the most powerful office in the land. As an unabashedly data-driven, even data-fixated, man, his ascendancy to the post would also be a new high water mark for a new group rising to the top of US and probably global culture. Romney would be the first presidential representative from the Computational Class.
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