Zitat des Tages von Rick Smolan:
The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.
Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.
I love the physicality of books.
Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it.
I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.
I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag.
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
In 1978, 'Time' magazine sent me to do a story about children in Southeast Asia fathered by American GIs. What I saw was very upsetting, but the story they published was whitewashed.
If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.
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.
One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.
My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.
The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.
What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.
The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.
I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
Targeted ads, I think, are useful because I don't want to see all the crap. I'm not interested in buying a Mercedes Benz, but I am interested in buying a new MacBook Air. So if organizations like Facebook can actually make the ads more relevant to me, if they know what I am interested in, I have no problem with that.
Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards.
'Data exhaust' is probably my least favorite phrase in the big data world 'cause it sounds like something you're trying to get rid of or something noxious that comes out of the back of your car.
The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art.
'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age.
I was painfully shy when I was a kid. I always thought when most people were born, part of the toolkit was teaching you how to relate to other people - and it was just left out of my toolkit.
The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.
The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.
Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.
