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Kenneth Cukier

Kenneth Cukier is a journalist and author focused on data, artificial intelligence, economics, and global affairs. He coauthored Big Data, a widely translated bestseller on data-driven change, and later cowrote Framers, on human decision-making. Through his reporting and books, he has shaped public discussion about data, technology, and AI.

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Kenneth Cukier built his career at the intersection of journalism, technology, and international affairs. An American writer educated at Wittenberg University, where he studied political science and economics and graduated in 1991, he showed an early interest in international relations that later shaped his reporting. Before becoming closely identified with The Economist, he worked at the International Herald Tribune in Paris and as technology editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong. He then spent more than two decades at The Economist as a foreign correspondent, technology writer, data editor, commentary editor, and eventually deputy executive editor. Reporting from Tokyo and elsewhere in Europe, Asia, and America gave his work a comparative cast; the article that later grew into Big Data began in a Salzburg Global setting focused on new information networks. ((https://www.wittenberg.edu/index.php/news/2016/why-data-will-transform-how-we-live-and-think?utm_source=openai))

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The term is very exposed now
-The Big-Data Interview
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We’re ‘datafying’ it, to coin a term
-Tackling Global Problems with Big Data
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We are not optimistic in the book that privacy can be protected in the big data age
-Tackling Global Problems with Big Data: Q&A
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We can do new things with that
-Fareed Zakaria GPS interview on Big Data
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That’s the hallmark of an economist who is true to his principles — and to the data
-Big data and apple pie
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We are able to datafy things we could never render in a data format before
-How the data revolution will change the world
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Outward diversity is a useful proxy for the cognitive kind
-Why diversity of thought helps firms succeed
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This decentralisation and openness is a stimulus to innovation
-Threat to the net

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"Kenneth Cukier is the deputy executive editor at The Economist, following two decades as a foreign correspondent, technology writer and commentary editor"

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