Channel: TEDx Talks

Category: Nonprofits & Activism

Tags: [tedxeid:33118]datadata scienceenglishprivacytechnologytedxtalks

Description: This talk explores the origin and growth of data to understand its place in today's world while dissecting its effect on privacy and on our species. Justin Horm is the Senior Network Manager at St. John's College (in his words, “essentially a digital plumber”). A gnome that inhabits a world where tinkering unseen keeps a community connected to the World it seeks to explore, he wanders along the meandering streams of data searching to simplify meaning to the elegance of binary. He is an avid reader of history, a writer of futures that should never be, and a scholar of Emily Dickinson. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx