Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live

John Murray Publishers, 2013, softcover, index, 242 pages, condition: as new.

.This book presents an eye-opening analysis of the biggest trend in technology and the drastic impact it will have on the economy, science, and society as a whole. Big data refers to our newfound ability to gather vast amounts of information, analyze it in an instant, and come to incredible conclusions. This approach can translate various phenomena from the price of airline tickets to the text of millions of books into searchable form, and uses our growing computational power to uncover epiphanies we would never have observed. A revolution similar to the Internet and perhaps even the printing press, big data will change the way we think about business, healthcare, politics, education and innovation for years to come. It also generates new threats, from the end of privacy as we know it to the idea of being penalized for what we haven't done yet, based on big data's ability to predict our future behavior.