The World is Changing

For most of human history the amount of data available has progressed forward in quality and quantity very slowly. Our traditional ways of handling business, commerce, and human communications have assumed the stability of this slow moving progression of data. However, recent innovations have driven us into a situation where data is expanding exponentially on a daily basis at machine speed.

It is no longer feasible for humans to completely comprehend the amount of data expansion that is occurring, let alone manipulate that data. This is causing an increasing gulf between human and machine powered decision-making.

Handling data and decision-making passively is no longer possible—computers are powering the transformation from reactive decision-making to forward predictive modeling and analysis. This is also rapidly changing the definition of data silos and how data is organized, not to mention what is fundamentally possible with data.

As the quantity of innovation compounds and available data exponentially increases in volume, we are led to a situation in which the entire system is undergoing a qualitative shift. The old models of handling business problems will no longer be competitive—and whole industries will either be altered or disappear in very short periods of time.