Teradata, our lives in the digital age

From April 4th 2017 to January 7th 2018, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie takes you into the fascinating and disturbing universe of digital data and proposes a deciphering of “big data”.

The rapid development of digital technology has undoubtedly changed our lives forever by improving our decisions and anticipating events. But do we really know how are all the data collected processed, how do they produce knowledge, and do they affect our lives?

The exhibition is already trying to define what the data is, everything around us being measurable: computers, telephones, connected objects … data that are stored every day in a complex way. How to treat, sort, check, transform?

Terra data explains how the algorithms are there to enable the transformation and use of these data that have a real impact on our lives: health, insurance, employment … Numerous services have emerged thanks to digital.

The interactions between technology and society are such that we can question the risks but we must also see everything that digital has brought: new forms of governance, citizen involvement, environmental impact …

The particularly interesting approach of the Cité des Sciences, which wanted a participatory dimension, was to mobilize a group of 70 volunteers who had debated on the subject, upstream of the exhibition and whose exchanges were the subject of a Video: exchanges that demonstrate that the public is in no way passive in the digital world.

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Practical information :

Science and Industry museum
30, avenue Corentin-Cariou
75019 Paris
From April 4, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm
Sundays from 10 am to 7 pm
Rate: from 9 to 12 euros
01 40 05 80 00
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