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We are Big Data: The Future of the Information Society
Sander Klous
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Description for We are Big Data: The Future of the Information Society
Hardcover. Num Pages: 218 pages, biography. BIC Classification: UBJ; UN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 242 x 17. Weight in Grams: 488.
This book demonstrates the inevitability of a continuously growing role of data in our society and it stresses that this role does not need to be threatening: to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine. The authors sketch the contours of a new information society, in which everything will be measured from our heartbeat during our morning run to the music we listen to and our walking patterns through department stores and they discuss the resistances within the society that have to be overcome. Sander Klous ... Read more
This book demonstrates the inevitability of a continuously growing role of data in our society and it stresses that this role does not need to be threatening: to the contrary, collection and analysis of data can help us prevent traffic jams, suppress epidemics, or produce tailor made medicine. The authors sketch the contours of a new information society, in which everything will be measured from our heartbeat during our morning run to the music we listen to and our walking patterns through department stores and they discuss the resistances within the society that have to be overcome. Sander Klous ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantis Press (Zeger Karssen)
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
199
Place of Publication
, Netherlands
ISBN
9789462391826
SKU
V9789462391826
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Ref
99-15
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