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Healthcare’s Only Hope: Surveillance

Eric Dishman, Intel's health visionary (and the protagonist of my "patient" chapter…

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Getting Ready for the Post-Season: Numerati Baseball

I love baseball, and I defend it stoutly against all those who…

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The Statistics of Counter-Terrorism

Is it worth more to save a person from a terrorist's bomb…

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You Will Be Monitored, Step by Step

I think I should have been more emphatic in The Numerati. From…

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Post Steve Jobs: ‘Hard to Imagine’ Game-Changing Technology

"It’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever see another 15 years of…

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The Roots of the Word ‘Numerati’

It was long my goal to make "numerati" a common word. Most…

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How Life Will Be Different–and the Same–in 2072

An exercise for you. Look around wherever you are (and away from…

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Google+ and the Numerati

The first circle I filled on Google+ was easy. Family. I dragged…

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You and Your Avatars

If you and I talk on our cell phones, we're actually not…

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Experience vs. Data: Consuming Mark Zuckerberg as Data

One day last month, a dazzling sunny day in Paris, I faced…

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