Programmers have been wandering out and shooting a shotgun into the night sky and hoping they hit something, and I end up paying $150 for channels full of nothing I want to watch. Rick Smolan Read Quote
If you travel 11 months a year – from one dangerous or isolated situation to the next – if you live in hotels, and every relationship with another human being is a two-week relationship, the only other people who have any idea what you’re going through or how strung out you are are other photographers. Rick Smolan Read Quote
Big Data is just that – big. But, it’s a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain. Rick Smolan Read Quote
Every time there’s a new tool, whether it’s Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it’s used. Rick Smolan Read Quote
Some of the pictures in ‘The Human Face of Big Data’ will bring tears to your eyes; others are so surprising or memorable that you just have to show them to your friends and family. Rick Smolan Read Quote
There’s a company in Boston called Ginger IO that has a smartphone app that can predict, two days before you get depressed, that you’re going to get depressed. Rick Smolan Read Quote
