Rick Smolland: Big Data lift the human civilization revolution explore more unknown

Rick Smolland (Rick Smolan), the world famous photographer, in his lens, the current "Big data" is the people's face, he looked forward to through the world from a vivid face, the great data on the development of human civilization, and to explore with people more unknown world.

Last night, the news of the "Big Data Human Face" project was wildly spread, and the project was initiated and directed by the book author Rick Smolland (Rick Smolan), a day of life, sponsored by EMC Corporation.

CNET journalist Http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/21263.html "> First time phone interview in Rick Smolland, far away in the United States, he told reporters," as a photographer, I have been very influential in human development for many years, such as the first year of Internet, water crisis, the day of life, etc. Big data into my vision is last year, perhaps a lot of people heard large data, the brain outlined in the picture is the computer in front of the people, I think this is not very interesting. I'm going to use a special perspective to illustrate big data. Big data will help human civilization set off a new round of revolution. ”

Rick Smolland, from the Against All Odds production company, the World Series "One Day in life" from books and other creative people in many global multiplayer projects

Big Data: The source power of the revolution of human civilization

In the present, big data is hot. Both companies and individuals are talking about or engaging in big data-related topics and businesses, or we're creating big data and being surrounded by big data-now the big data age.

Data from IDC show that the global market for large data technology and services will grow from $3.2 billion trillion in 2010 to $16.9 billion trillion in 2015, meaning its compound annual growth rate will reach 40%.

Although the big data market is in the ascendant, in the public eye, the big data is still a difficult word, and is a very abstract concept, it is not easy to express clearly. Why would a photographer challenge such a "limit"?

In this respect, Rick Smolland says, many years ago, he was a successful photographer, and in many cases he was the youngest photographer. As former "Time", "Life", "National Geographic" magazine photographer, he created the best-selling "A Day in the" Life (one days) series of books and many other large photographic projects, such as the America 24/7, Hours in Cyberspace (24-hour network living space), and blue Planet Run.

Walrus, ©chris Oosthuizen/University of Pretoria, South Africa, 2012/Photo Source: The human face of large data (to uncover the mysteries of the Sea, from 2007 onwards, Australian Marine and climate scientists work together through the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IMOS) to collect and share trillions of bytes of data from a network of sensor floats, underwater robotic robots, scientific monitoring stations, remote satellite sensors and animal labels, such as the labels in the elephant above. "You can't win just by locking the data away from others," said Tim Moltmann, director of the IMOS program. "Only by showing the data and collaborating with others will you win." ”）

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