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THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF THE 'DATA-DRIVEN SOCIETY'

Steve Lohr [2.25.13]

...Up to now, the focus on the power and implications of Big Datatechnology has been involved social media, business decision-making and online privacy. Those are big subjects in their own right. So it’s not surprising that the notion of a data-driven society has not been much considered.

But someone who has was host of the meeting: Alex Pentland, a computational social scientist at the Media Lab. He put his intellectual stake in the ground last year in a presentation posted on Edge.org, "Reinventing Society in the Wake of Big Data." 

THE PROMISE AND PERIL OF THE 'DATA-DRIVEN SOCIETY' [1]

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bits.blog, the New York Times [2]
Steve Lohr [3]
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[ Mon. Feb. 25. 2013 ]

...Up to now, the focus on the power and implications of Big Datatechnology has been involved social media, business decision-making and online privacy. Those are big subjects in their own right. So it’s not surprising that the notion of a data-driven society has not been much considered.

But someone who has was host of the meeting: Alex Pentland, a computational social scientist at the Media Lab. He put his intellectual stake in the ground last year in a presentation posted on Edge.org, "Reinventing Society in the Wake of Big Data [5]." 

Links:
[1] https://www.edge.org/news/the-promise-and-peril-of-the-data-driven-society
[2] http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
[3] https://www.edge.org/memberbio/steve_lohr
[4] http://nyti.ms/13JeDqw
[5] http://www.edge.org/conversation/reinventing-society-in-the-wake-of-big-data