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
The people who are thinking most about big data right now are corporations and governments.
Some people think that Facebook is fantastic; other people are very worried about it.
Photographers have always been each other's biggest fans.
One of the nice things about living in Silicon Valley is that I end up at all these conferences and things, and I get to listen in on the zeitgeist.
Netflix and Amazon know when you stop and start a program, whether you wanted the whole thing, all of that.
My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.
Insurance companies want to make sure that you stay on your medicine.
If we were to reengineer the DVR, we would cut America's energy bill by 5%.
I'm not very good at science or math, even though I pretend. And I'm not very good at teaching. I'm not very patient.
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.