Nationality American | Occupation Journalist | |
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Notable work Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Work, Live and Think Books Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think Profiles | ||
Kenneth cukier on big data
Kenneth Neil Cukier (born 1968) is an American journalist and author of books on technology and society. He is best known for his work at The Economist and the book Big Data: A Revolution that Will Transform How We Work, Live and Think, coauthored with Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013.
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- Kenneth cukier on big data
- Kenneth cukier big data is better data
- Career
- Publications
- Media
- Boards
- Affilations
- Awards
- References
Kenneth cukier big data is better data
Career
He has also written for The New York Times, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs and other publications. He was technology editor of the Wall Street Journal Asia edition in Hong Kong in 2001. In 1999 he coined the term "Frenchelon" to describe the French government's surveillance capabilities.
Publications
Big Data was a New York Times bestseller, translated into 21 languages and a finalist for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. The pair published a follow-on work in 2014, Learning With Big Data: The Future of Education.
Media
"Privacy was the central challenge in a small-data era. In the big data age, the challenge will be safeguarding free will, moral choice, human volition, human agency."
In a radio interview in September 2016, Kuzier described the current big data revolution as an agent of change similar to the Gutenberg press and the Printing Revolution. He cautioned that while there will be huge the benefits, there is a need to have limitations in place to "preserve our fundamental freedoms" and to prevent Big Data from being another version of Orwell's Big Brother.
Boards
In 2008 he was named to the board of directors of International Bridges to Justice. In 2015 he joined the board of The Open String Foundation, which provides classical instruments to disadvantaged children.
Affilations
In 2016 he was elected as a trustee of Chatham House, a British international affairs institute.