At some point in the future - possibly the very near future - Britain will be hit by a deadly pandemic, and… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Our long-range predictions - especially those which anticipate extreme-weather events - rely on an assumption that the future will be similar to… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
I spend quite a lot of time thinking about how curated our information is. What we watch, what we read, what we… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
There's actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
But as soon as Facebook decided that they wanted to become purveyors of news, suddenly you have these highly personalized newsfeeds where… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
Every time you shop online, every time you sign up for a newsletter, or register on a website, or enquire about a… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
The future doesn't just happen. We are building it, and we are building it all the time. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
At some point in the future - possibly the very near future - Britain will be hit by a deadly pandemic, and its impact… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
There's barely any aspect of our modern lives that hasn't had a mathematical contribution at some point and yet, if you asked the average… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
When it comes to love, making long-term decisions is a risky business. Sooner or later, most of us decide to leave our carefree bachelor… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
If we permit flawed machines to make life-changing decisions on our behalf - by allowing them to pinpoint a murder suspect, to diagnose a… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
In our urge to automate, in our eagerness to adopt the latest innovations, we appear to have developed a habit of unthinkingly handing over… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
All around us, algorithms provide a kind of convenient source of authority: an easy way to delegate responsibility, a short cut we take without… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
You can't assess the value of an innovation in isolation, you have to consider whose hands it's in. — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
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… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous, heterogeneous population,… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
We have this imbalance where the people who are making algorithms aren't talking to the people who are using them. And the people who… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
On average, the higher the novelty score a film had, the better it did at the box office. But only up to a point.… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
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… — Hannah Fry Copy Share Image
