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

Steve Lohr
[ 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 [4]." 

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