Category: Big Data

The Commons

10/13/2018

Have you stopped to think that most human institutions are not aligned to most human needs? It should not be surprising when we consider that monetary wealth – the most basic measure of what you can do in this instant – is so unevenly distributed.

Is more technology going to bend this arc? Follow the money for an answer.

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The Observer Effect

5/5/2018

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When you know you are being watched, you act differently. It is impossible to do otherwise – your actions are influenced by your environment even if you do not realize it.

Life is experienced through the eye of the beholder; we need to be aware of how technology changes what we see.

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The Colors That You Cannot See

4/28/2018

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People go through life typically believing what they see. We often forget that our eyes only perceive a tiny fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum.

In a parallel vein, there is a difference between what appears to be true and what is actually true.

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Data or Humanity?

3/3/2018

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Data is all the rage these days. The infallible belief is that something can be improved if it can be measured. I would argue that measuring certain things will break them.

Increasingly, articles and studies are surfacing that the collection of data and application of that data is not improving human well-being.

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Can you learn to see in the dark?

12/23/2017

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This post is a continuation of describing how Shift Sight, a Teal organization, is inherently different from what most of you know.

It explains our position on an increasingly wasteful and damaging technology: Big Data.

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The Commons

The Observer Effect

The Colors That You Cannot See

Data or Humanity?

Can you learn to see in the dark?

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