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Data is eating the world

Envisioning the future

To understand the future, look at weak signals with exponential growths.

What are those weak signals ?

Source: @vb_jens

Cheap computing

Computing power per $ = x2 every 18 months

Source: Moore's Law over 120 Years (Ray Kurzweil)

Ubiquitous computing

Transistors per human = x10 every 5 years

Source: Darrin Qualman

Growing data

Data stored = x5 every 4 years

400 exaBytes = 40 GB/human

40 000 exaBytes = 4 TB/human

Source: The Digital Universe in 2020 (IDC)

Slow growth of IT jobs

Slow growth of number of technologists in the population.

Non-exponential !

Source: Employed ICT specialists (Eurostat by DB nomics)

Big data is eating the world

IT & Engineering departments are forced to get into cloud, big data and machine learning.

Source: The Business Imperatives - EMC

Information brings value by improving decisions

A weather forecast is not valuated the same by a citizen and by a wine producer.

The assessment of oil reserves is not valuated the same by a citizen and by a trader on the commodity market.

AI creates information which is exploited through decisions.

You can't leverage AI without understanding decision making !

šŸ“Š Information + āœ‹ Decision = šŸ’° Value