New Technologies with Big Data
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Argues that social science must sit alongside engineering, using people as the primary sensors to spot cultural shifts, question claims, and run field work; contrasts belief-driven vs data-driven belief and cites cognitive biases (Kahneman/Tversky) as reasons to reorient decisions toward observed data; proposes a personal data economy where individuals aggregate and trade anonymized data; pitches a big‑data project to explain coral reef decline and stresses fixing openness so transparency and trust are restored.
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