

Search
How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter
Author: Stefan Weitz
Narrator: Dana Hickox
Unabridged: 6 hr 1 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Ascent Audio
Published: 11/01/2014
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Includes:
Bonus Material
Synopsis
Then digital happened. Besides having profound societal impacts, it also made the act of searching almost impossibly complex for both engines and searchers. Information isn't just words; it is pictures, videos, thoughts tagged with geocode data, routes, physical world data, and, increasingly, the machines themselves reporting their condition and listening to others.
Search: How the Data Explosion Makes Us Smarter holds up a mirror to our time to see if search can keep up. Author Stefan Weitz, a Director in Search for Bing (Microsoft), explores the idea of access to help readers understand how we are inventing new ways to access data through devices in more places and with more capabilities. We are at the cusp of imbuing our generation with superpowers, but only if we fundamentally rethink what search is, how people can use it, and what we should demand of it.