A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family. Rick Smolan apartmentfamilygeneration Change image and share on social
The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data. Rick Smolan bigchildcompletely Change image and share on social
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 bookdayfather Change image and share on social
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 channelendfull Change image and share on social
Do you realize the FBI filing system from the '50s was much more secure? How could you have stolen that data? It was on notecards. Now someone with a thumb drive, or remotely, can take the equivalent of millions of those notecards. Rick Smolan 50sdatumdrive share on social
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 aimamazeamerica share on social
A lot of people don't want to know, but I'd like to know if I have a 10 percent or a 90 percent chance of developing Alzheimer's some day. If I know I'm likely to develop it, I'm certainly going to start looking around right now to find if there is something that I can do to offset it. Rick Smolan alzheimerchanceday share on social
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 corneropinionsoviet Change image and share on social
I'm not a computer person at all. I only know how to turn them on. I'm not a programmer. I couldn't program my way out of a paper bag. Rick Smolan bagcomputerpaper 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
