Matters of Life and Data
aI didnat set out to become a collector of your and your neighborsa information. When I was growing up, nobody but egghead scientists talked about adata.a It was the mechanical age, and I was a gadget geek, taking apart my cousinas toys and trying to put them back together again. I was especially crazy about cars and engines, and had it not been for a fateful encounter during college recruiting season, I mightave lived my life as a race car mechanic instead of learning about computers at IBM. As it turned out, pursuing Big Data allowed me the resources to become a professional race car driver on the side, competing against the likes of Paul Newman, who makes appearances in these pages as well. aSuch are the wonders of this journey weare all on. Mine has taken me from the frontier of western Arkansas, where my ancestors owned a hardware store selling iron tools to westbound travelers, to the frontier of the digital age, where room-size computers have become eclipsed by the power of smart phones. And in a sense, the story youare about to read isnat so different from those of the colorful adventurers who stocked up their wagons at my familyas hardware emporium and headed west to make their fortunes. Data mining is the new gold rush, and we were there at first strike, dragging with us all our human frailties and foibles. In this bookas cast of characters youall find ambition, arrogance, jealousy, pride, fear, recklessness, anger, lust, viciousness, greed, revenge, betrayal, and then some.q aIt is a messy story. In the big picture, this could be called a narrative of America since World War II. But in the micro telling, think of it this way: The man who opened your lives to Big Data finally bares his own.aWea#39;re largely on Android systems, but some of our services are also available for iPhone. ... Commission against telemarketers, scammers, debt collectors, and companies that violate the Do Not Call registry. ... Occasionally, Jim Womble or Rodger Kline stops in to say helloaboth are investors. ... Our primary customers are Sprint, T-Mobile, and Metro PCS, and after a two-and-a-half-year effort we just signed with TracFone, the fifth largest carrier in the U.S. Thata#39;s a huge milestone.
| Title | : | Matters of Life and Data |
| Author | : | Charles D. Morgan |
| Publisher | : | Morgan James Publishing - 2015-01-20 |
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