{"id":18,"date":"2017-10-24T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/matty\/?p=18"},"modified":"2017-10-24T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T17:26:34","slug":"big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/matty\/2017\/10\/24\/big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Eaves\u2019 outlook on the world is a lot less optimistic compared to the authors of our previous readings.\u00a0 His comparison of the internet to the printing press that first increased individual power, and then increased the power of the state is quite fascinating to consider.\u00a0 First, the printing press gave millions easy access to more information.\u00a0 Later, Napoleon was able to mobilize a one million man army only after the printing press standardized language, history, identity, and nationality that he was able to exploit to his own ends.\u00a0 Similarly, the internet has empowered the individual, but we have started to feel the threat of centralized governments controlling technology in malicious ways.\u00a0 Looking to China, we can see that the government\u2019s censorship attempts to suppress any rebellion against the government, and attempt to make one billion people think as the government sees fit.\u00a0 Arguably, China is an example of Eaves\u2019 outlook on the future as people are in some ways being manipulated by the government. \u00a0The centralized, all-encompassing technology in China such as Weibo, certainly seems appealing and convenient, but this unfortunately gives the government easy access to all your data.\u00a0 We need to be careful about how much data we are willing to give to technology that may help us in some ways, but can be used maliciously.\u00a0 At worst, collection of all this data could lead to a scenario depicted in <em>Captain America: The Winter Solider<\/em> in which a computer program determines who would pose a threat based off all data records of people, and then would kill them.\u00a0 Data has been extremely beneficial to us, but soon could be detrimental.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure that open government solves the issue of data being used maliciously against people.\u00a0 Open government does not necessarily stop the government from using the data they collect.\u00a0 Open government does make it harder for the government to be malicious, but does not prevent it all together.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos\u2019 thought that it is extremely difficult for large organizations to fundamentally change processes and adjust as relayed by Eaves shows the importance that we think carefully about the early stages and foundation of technological systems and databases in how they could be used in the future.\u00a0 I think this also relates to our discussion of AI, and how important that we are careful with AI in the beginning as it will be increasingly difficult to change the core values of AI 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