title: Matters of Life and Data: The Remarkable Journey of a Big Data Visionary Whose Work Impacted Millions (Including You)
author:  Charles D. Morgan 
description: The man who opened your life to Big Data finally bares his own.
zlib_text: “As pattern-seeking creatures, we look out to the objective world to make sense of 
  our environment. In the age of datafication, the received wisdom is that the pro-
  cess has been reversed: corporations look into the subjective world of people’s data 
  patterns in order to surveil and anticipate. This much is true, but as this ‘pattern-
  breaking’ collection shows, much more happens besides. From the aesthetic to the 
  temporal and from the cultural to the biopolitical, there is a fast-paced evolutionary 
  struggle taking place for the perpetuation of the aeonic patterns of life against the 
  growingly powerful machine-based intelligence of computation. Big Data—A New 
  Medium? is the most important and encompassing analysis yet on the struggle for 
  the ‘soul’ of human creativity, diversity and autonomy”.
  Robert Hassan, University of Melbourne, Australia
  “This is a breath-taking and kaleidoscopic series of reflections on one of the most 
  important phenomena of our age. It tells the compellin