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If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong. Rick Smolan

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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. Rick Smolan

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If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%. Rick Smolan

Energy Would Were America Energy Bill Cut Bill

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. Rick Smolan

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

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I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules. Rick Smolan

Love Future Time People Think Idea Message Always Leaving Fascinated

How do you photograph a gadget in a new, and not boring, way? You have to get away from people sitting in front of a computer. You have to get a look at the digital signature. Rick Smolan

You People Digital Way Signature Photograph Boring Computer New Look How Get Sitting Front Gadget Away

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. Rick Smolan

My company, Against All Odds Productions, has done print on demand; we were the first to do a book with a CD-ROM in the early 1990s. We do custom covers. It's always fun to do something new. Rick Smolan

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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. Rick Smolan

Me You Perspective Situation Photographers See Rather How How Much Amazes Itself Than Person Same Different Room Rooms Realize Much

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. Rick Smolan

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I love the physicality of books. Rick Smolan

Love Books Physicality

I'm an optimist. Rick Smolan

Optimist

If you ever plan to run for office, if you're a teenager, remember everything you do, every tweet, every Facebook posting, every picture you put on Instagram will be there forever for journalists and politicians - for your competition to dig up. Rick Smolan

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Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine. Rick Smolan

You Medicine Stay Make Sure Insurance Insurance Companies Want Your Companies

How do you photograph data? Rick Smolan

You Photograph Data How

The 'America at Home' project was aimed at being the most extensive record of American home life ever attempted, and we were amazed at how many people were willing to participate as photographers or to welcome the photographers into their homes. Rick Smolan

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A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family. Rick Smolan

Family Three Immigrant Generations Tiny Hold Apartment Might

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day. Robert Adams

I thought I was taking pictures of things that I hated. But there was something about these pictures. They were unexpectedly, disconcertingly glorious. Robert Adams

Thought Glorious Hated About Something Taking Pictures Were Unexpectedly Things

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have. Robert Adams

Become Television Evocative Observed Most Widely

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