part one
what’s driving the data crush?
A range of social forces has both grown from and feeds into the availability of information in our world. It is no longer news to anyone that social media, mobile phones, ecommerce, digital entertainment, cloud computing, and Big Data are life-changing technologies. However, in this part I hope to achieve a few goals. First, I want to qualify each of these six social and technical trends, explaining what are they about, how they impact our lives, and how they contribute to data growth. Second, I want to quantify each topic by describing their rates of adoption and growth and their future trends. Finally, I intend to demonstrate how each of these trends is impacting the evolution of multiple industries. ...
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