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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
Medicine
Father
You
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" Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans. "
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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. "
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Data
Art
" Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that. "
Rick Smolan
You
Stop
Start
" 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. "
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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
Want
Watch
End
" 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
Boston
Days
Company
" How do you photograph data? "
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Photograph
Data
How
" You can't talk about big data without talking about things like privacy and ownership. "
Rick Smolan
Privacy
Data
Like
" 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
Opinions
You
Strong
" 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
Idea
People
Think
" 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
New
Data
Time
" There are a number of fascinating stories included in 'The Human Face of Big Data' that represent some of the most innovative applications of data that are shaping our future. "
Rick Smolan
Future
Stories
Human
" 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
Perspective
Realize
Situation
" 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
Children
American
Story
" My dad was actually against me being a photographer. He thought it was a dead-end job and that you end up doing baby pictures and weddings. "
Rick Smolan
End
You
Thought
" I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College. "
Rick Smolan
Voted
Business
College
" I'm an optimist. "
Rick Smolan
Optimist
" Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room. "
Rick Smolan
You
Waiting
Me
" Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it. "
Rick Smolan
People
Some People
Facebook
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
I Am
Problem
Me
" The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor. "
Rick Smolan
Way
Korea
Heat
" Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain. "
Rick Smolan
Difficult
Data
Explain
" Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living. "
Rick Smolan
Right
Traditions
Before
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Born
Always
Shy
" They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity. "
Rick Smolan
Electricity
Heat
Up
" I love the physicality of books. "
Rick Smolan
Love
Books
Physicality
" The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data. "
Rick Smolan
Living
Different
Data
" 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
Home
America
Life
" I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories. "
Rick Smolan
I Think
Memories
Going
" 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. "
Rick Smolan
Good
Pretend
Science