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Rick Smolan
Rick Smolan
American Photographer
Born: Nov 5, 1949
About Big Data People Think You
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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
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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
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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
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Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves. Rick Smolan
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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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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. Rick Smolan
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I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state. Rick Smolan
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Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living. 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
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'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. Rick Smolan
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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
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Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that. Rick Smolan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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