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 competitiondigfacebook share on social
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 artdatumdetective Change image and share on social
The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting. Rick Smolan bookfindhard Change image and share on social
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 babydaddead Change image and share on social
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 bearkidleave Change image and share on social
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 borecomputerdigital Change image and share on social
The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments. Rick Smolan bigcorporationdatum Change image and share on social
'America 24/7' will be a landmark series in documentary photography and the watershed event of the new digital photography age. Rick Smolan ageamericadigital Change image and share on social
As individuals, we have very little say about how our data is being used. I'm not worried about the privacy implications of it so much. But it seems to me that, as an individual, if I'm the one generating the data, I should have some kind of say in how it's going to be used. Rick Smolan datumgenerateimplication share on social
