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Rick Smolan’s Biography
Read Full Bio →Rick Smolan, CEO of Against All Odds Productions is a New York Times best-selling author with more than five million copies of his books in print. A former Time, Life, and National Geographic photographer, Smolan is best known as the co-creator of the "Day in the Life" book series. His global photography projects, (which feature the work of hundreds of the world's leading photojournalists and combine creative storytelling with state-of-the-art technology) are regularly featured on the covers …
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Awards
WEBBY
2013 - Education & Reference (Tablet & All Other Devices)
The Human Face of Big Data iPad ebook brings to life, through 60-plus pages of stunning interactivity, glorious photographs, and captivating infographics, stories and essays, the extraordinary Big Data revolution sweeping, almost invisibly, through business, academia, government, healthcare, and everyday life. Big Data is already enabling us to provide a healthier life for our children. To provide our seniors with independence while keeping them safe. To help us conserve precious resources like water and energy. To alert us to tiny changes in our health, weeks or years before we develop a life-threatening illness. To peer into our own individual genetic makeup. To create new forms of life. And soon, as many predict, to reengineer our own species. And we’ve barely scratched the surface… Using simple, elegant navigation, readers of The Human Face of Big Data iPad ebook will be able to seamlessly immerse themselves in all facets of the multimedia content of this remarkably designed showpiece that explores the world of Big Data and captures how it is helping address the biggest challenges facing our species. The "Human Face of Big Data" App costs $2.99 and 100% of all proceeds are being donated to Water, a nonprofit organization that brings safe clean drinking water to people in developing nations.
Boston Film Festival
2014 - “Best Cinematography"
"The Human Face of Big Data" With the rapid emergence of digital devices, an unstoppable, invisible force is changing human lives in ways from the microscopic to the gargantuan: Big Data, a word that was barely used a few years ago but now governs the day for many of us from the moment we awaken to the extinguishing of the final late-evening light bulb. This massive gathering and analyzing of data in real time is allowing us to not only address some of humanity biggest challenges but is also helping create a new kind of planetary nervous system. Yet as Edward Snowden and the release of the NSA documents has shown, the accessibility of all this data comes at a steep price. The Human Face of Big Data captures the promise and peril of this extraordinary knowledge revolution. The film is narrated by Joel McHale and will be broadcast in 25 countries in the fall of 2015