Rick Smolan
Rick Smolan
Rick Smolan is a former TIME, LIFE and National Geographic photographer best known as the co-creator of the "Day in the Life" book series. He is currently CEO of Against All Odds Productions, a cross-media organization which utilizes the skills of hundreds of the world's leading photographers, writers, filmmakers, designers and programmers to merge creative storytelling with state-of-the-art technology...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth5 November 1949
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I wonder if 50 years from now we'll look back, and maybe Julian Assange will be the hero and J. Edgar Hoover will be the enemy of the state.
I was voted least likely to manage a business when I was at Dickinson College.
I think we're going to have auxiliary hard drives to offload our memories.
I think that we have to have the ability to decide what we share and what we don't.
I think people love this idea of leaving a message for the future. I was always fascinated by the idea of time capsules.
Big Data is just that - big. But, it's a term that is largely misunderstood and difficult to explain.
Americans are changing right before our eyes. They are choosing different lifestyles, families, traditions and ways of living.
A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.
Every time there's a new tool, whether it's Internet or cell phones or anything else, all these things can be used for good or evil. Technology is neutral; it depends on how it's used.
What amazes me is that you can have 10 different photographers in the same room, and you see 10 different rooms. You realize how much of it is the person's perspective rather than the situation itself.
Those who fear that we are losing our individualism couldn't be more wrong: Americans have never been more free to create and recreate themselves.
They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.
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.