Never before have we had so much data about individuals, about transportation, about the

我們從未擁有像現在這麼大量的資料，無論是在個人, 交通, 或是經濟方面,

economy, on such a fine-grained level as we do today.

並以如此細緻的程度被儲存著。

We see that as developing into the future, exponentially so.

我們可以預見，這些資料在未來更將以驚人的速度增長著。

With that we'll be able to build our understanding of the city, and improve our models of the

隨這趨勢，我們可以對整座城市建立更深層的了解，並且改進現有模型。

city. The bike data - the bike-hire data - from

例如：腳踏車資料 - 腳踏車租借資料 -

that we'll be able to identify different types of usage and where they're used, and why.

從資料就可以辨別出不同用途, 使用的地點, 以及使用原因。

We have the data on the locations of tube trains, of buses, we have oyster card data

我們擁有地鐵及巴士的位置資訊，也有交通卡資料

- so people's movement from origins and destinations across London - with that we're beginning

因此對於整個倫敦裡面，人們從出發點到目的地，都能夠得到

to understand, better than ever before, where people go, when, and why, and start to understand

比以往更精確的了解。人們都去了哪？ 移動的時間, 理由。此外，我們也能夠開始了解到

how people change their behaviour in different circumstances.

人們是如何在不同環境條件下，改變他們的行為。

So this is already happening, to a certain degree, and I think in the next 50 years you

這些目前已經達到某些程度的發展，而且我認為，在接下來50年，

can imagine that more increasing levels of individual data will become available, so

你可以想像到，將有更多個人資料能夠被取得，這

relating to each of us, about our individual behaviours. But at the same time you can imagine

與每個人息息相關，包含我們的個人行為。但同時也可以預料得到，

there'd be a kick-back against this movement, so as it becomes increasingly known that your

一股反對的阻力將隨之而來，比如說當你的

financial transactions are available to researchers, what will people's responses be to that, and

個人金融交易可以被研究員們取得，人們將會有什麼樣的反應？

will they be happy with that sort of research continuing?

他們會樂見諸如此類的研究繼續進行下去嗎？

I think we're really seeing these sort-of patterns of realisation occuring - if you

我認為在現實生活已經有類似的模式被實現 - 假使你

look at organisations or companies like Facebook, there's a small movement there against Facebook

觀察像是Facebook這樣的組織或是企業，會聽到些微的反抗，關於他們

their utilisation of people's data for advertising, or marketing purposes,

利用個人資料，用在廣告或是商業的目的上，

so this is a trend you may see continuing as data increases, as individual data increases

隨著資料繼續增加，這也會是你將持續看到的趨勢，就是個資的增加

and people become aware of what data can be used for.

以及人們開始關心著他們的資料將會被拿來做些什麼。

As these data sources become available and more accesible and easier to understand, people

當資料變得更加容易取得並實際運用，而且也更容易去了解，人們

will become better at understanding these and being able to use them for their own purposes,

將會對這些資料更加內行，並能利用來發展自己的用途，

to question their government, to make decisions about their own lives.

像是用來質疑政府，或是運用在個人生活中的各種決策。