Nonsense Big Data

The most important significance of the so-called Big Data transformation is not to increase the amount of data alone, but to use distributed storage and distributed computing. Nor does it lie in the increase in data sources or types of data. Its most important meaning is that more and more human behavior is recorded electronically. Every bank transfer, shopping, talking to friends, riding a vehicle, fueling a car, eating a restaurant, reading a book, or even sleeping heart rate and brain waves ... will be recorded. This will provide a new perspective for the understanding of human beings and society, provide the researchers of the social sciences with a novel paradigm of research, and even eventually lead to the psychological history predicted by Asimov in the Galactic Empire-a discipline that predicts the future of society by studying the laws of mental statistics of a large number of individual human beings.

Obviously, an ethical question about privacy will be accompanied by ...

Nonsense Big Data