In this episode, I got to speak with Ken Cukier. Ken is an award winning journalist, a book author and a keynote speaker. He’s the coauthor of Big Data: A Revolution That Transforms How We Live, Work, and Think with Viktor Mayer-Schnberger. It was a New York Times bestseller and translated into over 20 languages and sold over 1 million copies worldwide. It won the National Library of Chinas Wenjin Book Award and was a finalist for the FT Business Book of the Year. Kenn co-authored a follow-on book, called “Learning with Big Data : The Future of Education”. I got the chance to speak to Kenn about big data and whether the technologies are going to be used for surveillance or for good.
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Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think, coauthored with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
https://amzn.to/3gTKfYC
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:48 Kenn Cukier’s Introduction
1:06 Artificial Intelligence
2:09 Digital Technologies
3:01 Being Manipulated
3:26 Raw Data
4:30 Retina Scans & Data
5:22 The Benefits That AI Can Bring Society
5:55 State Surveillance
6:35 Benefits of Data
7:20 Privacy & Technology
7:54 Control
8:23 End