What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We live in an age where there is a firehose of information, and there is no hierarchy of what is important and what is not. Where the truth is often fashioned through a variety of digital means. Are you your avatar? Who are you in social media? What face do you turn toward the world? How much does it have in common with who you actually are?
I think I've begun to take for granted how easily information can swirl around me.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.
The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
In our quest to define and describe the world, we have crisscrossed the oceans and continents, compiling exhaustive knowledge about its life forms and features, and extended our physical reach through technology, which provides us instantaneous and pervasive access to information about seemingly everything.
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.
Nothing new is on the earth right now. Technology, the things that we're discovering, it's been sitting here just waiting for someone to brush it off and go, 'Oh, let me read that. Let me see how I can use this information.' And it doesn't matter if it's from a tech perspective or a philosophical perspective.