Technology Quotes by Hannah Fry

9 Technology quotes by Hannah Fry

Hannah Fry’s eight statements on technology blend humor with clear explanations of data and algorithms. The collection offers a brief, accessible look at how mathematical thinking informs modern life.

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Technology on its own isn't good or or evil.

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I don't like the algorithms that don't do what they claim they do.

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You can't assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it's in.

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In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly…

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We're living in an age where new technology offers gigantic upsides - artificial intelligence has the potential to diagnose cancer, catch serial…

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The invisible pieces of code that form the gears and cogs of the modern machine age, algorithms have given the world everything…

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The weather doesn't respect political or geographic boundaries: we're all living under the same sky. And so weather prediction has been a…

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We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the…

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Because, ultimately, we can't just think of algorithms in isolation. We have to think of the failings of the people who design…

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Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing these huge…

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On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point.…

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Wind depends on temperature. Temperature depends on pressure. And pressure depends on wind. It's an intricate mathematical tapestry that is far too intertwined to…

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I don't like the algorithms that don't do what they claim they do.

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Everything we're doing online is being not just monitored, but that information is being packaged up and sold and resold to manipulate us.

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Our long-range predictions - especially those which anticipate extreme-weather events - rely on an assumption that the future will be similar to the past.…

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