Just how the invention of computers and the Internet has fundamentally changed our world, machine learning is suddenly enabling analytics to be almost everywhere. Where such rapid change occurs, we humans are of course also prone to exuberance, even hype, and we sometimes need to take a step back and take a deep breath in order to keep things in perspective.
When I took a marketing class at University of Giessen in 1995, the professor used a chart from the 1960s that illustrated the idea of product life cycles with different types of fabric. Cotton was plotted ...
