Big Data age, carnival or shackles (figure)

Since 2012, a word has suddenly been popular, from politicians to media people, from bosses to technical powder, and everyone is talking about the impending revolution-big data.

What is big data? Large data means that in the near future decisions will be based on data analysis rather than experience and intuition.

Think about it, you don't have to go to a hospital, you can predict what disease will be in 10 years; without a questionnaire, you can complete a consumer demand survey; you'll know who cheated in the game without a arraignment, and you can translate the article correctly without learning a foreign language, even if you know who the next football World Cup title is ...

Big data "Big Data" "Big Data Marketing" "Big battle Data" "Big Data Change" "Treasure Big Data" "Big Data Cloud" "Big Data Prediction" "Large Numbers" "Master Data" "Control large Numbers" ... In the publishing industry, big figures also set off a climax, the biggest bright spot this year.

Is the big data really that beautiful? How far apart is it from the big one? Can we really handle big data? In the 2014 Tencent Summer thought, scholars conducted in-depth research, there is no doubt that this is a thought feast should not be missed.

Tsinghua University Professor Liu De:

Big data to beware of Big Bluff

As for large data, it is important to have a book, the Big Data age, but there are two very questionable views, one is extreme contempt for sampling, and the other is the principle of no respect for relevance.

Large data There are three risks: one is not enough to calculate speed; the other is false laws everywhere, all things have connections, easy to let people into the climax of their own; third, each has only part of the data, everyone in the "Data island" on the judge.

Now the formation of a very important genre, called data visualization, very beautiful, become an art, but it only belongs to the show, and did not analyze the inherent laws. Google 2008 years to open a flu trend forecast, than the United States CDC also quasi, hit, but then more and more chaotic, because of the one-sided attention to relevance, ignoring the causal. Therefore, even in the large data age, we can not forget the observation, questionnaires, sampling and other traditional methods of data collection.

Wu Guosheng, professor of philosophy at Peking University:

Technology autonomy is the outstanding characteristic of the contemporary

For a long time, we mistakenly thought that technology was neutral, is a tool, can use, can not, can be used to do bad things can also do good, this is actually very superficial, technology has its own autonomy and structure, some technology must point to certain things, such as the kitchen knife must be used to cut, the difference is only chopping people or chopping vegetables. Many people think that it is stupid to control technology by plugging, enclosing, or even using it. Technology Autonomy is a prominent feature of the contemporary, such as the Internet, you use it, you must accept its logic, it is impossible as long as it improves efficiency, not accept its potential consequences. Adapting to new technology can only change our structure. Today, we must attach great importance to modern technology and its autonomous logic. For new technology, people can not become too fast, both physical and social attributes have some inertia, but these inert if with the technology too conflict, human is not safe.

Well-known it commentators Xie:

Backwardness will become the data colonies of others

In the first Iraq war, the U.S. military's "smart bombs" accounted for only 7%, compared to the second war in 2003, reached 90%. There will be a war in the future, maybe even people can not see, and even in the future data warfare, compared to how much you have t data, I have how much, how fast you hair, model, and then see whether to surrender.

American commercial Internet development for at least 30-35 years, the world's English penetration rate increased by one-fold, in the past we said the West, now the concept of the West has not been established, became the United States and other, in the internet era, Britain, Germany, France and other former powers were basically colonized by the United States

Technology in development, you do not follow, will become blank. China today is the world's second-largest internet power after the United States, but it cannot, by analogy, think that China is still a data powerhouse in the big data age.

Can we make a logical inference that today, any social organization, social institution, social mechanism, social structure, which prevents, delays, interferes with the arrival of large data, must be changed.

Columnist Ann:

The requirement of openness inevitably produces conflict.

Big data is actually a matter of ownership, as individuals, you are unlikely to have large data, ordinary people are only large data users and data providers, this is the most primitive accumulation of capital when the situation is exactly the same, if the accumulation of money once led to the power of enterprises and countries, then, in the big Data age, Data accumulation can also make some companies demand power sharing with the state.

Large numbers allow companies to counties to the government, and some governments think the price is reasonable and some feel unreasonable. If the power between the state and the enterprise, the enterprise and the enterprise cannot be distributed equitably, it will cause conflict and even war.

Whether a country can adapt to the big data age depends on whether its politics can adapt to big data, because the requirement of openness will inevitably produce various conflicts.

I think the big data age has at least one benefit, and for young people, no matter how violent the conflict is, its rising channels are open and may help you get into the upper middle class. For example, you learn computer, take a venture capital, so, this is a revolutionary era, and what will happen next, we can not guess.

Feng Xingyuan, professor of Graduate school, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences:

The Tao itself will not change

In my opinion, big data and electric light may be the same, you have to use it, it is useful, and the use of good to control it, electricity can kill people, but master, he will become your tool, large data so.

Large data age will be a big war impossible, because today, the big war has no real value, can only be a local wars, and local wars do not need ideas. Americans have long been in control of big data, but it has not caused a big war, so there is no need to be too pessimistic.

I pay special attention to large data applications related to personal life. For example, large data agriculture, today's urbanization is one-way, through the land to expand the size of the city, can actually also two-way, that is, urban and rural integration, city dwellers can also live in the countryside, you can only find experts, you may also engage in agriculture.

Tao is the existence, then the large data resources, the dominant things can change, but the Tao is not changed, the Tao is found, not sages set.

Gaoquan, Professor, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics:

Be cautious about progress

For the era of large data, people have the spirit of scientific optimism, but I still from the perspective of law, civilized point of view, a more cautious attitude.

Why? Because we have thousands of of years of precipitation of things, need some basic constraints to exist, we feel pain, but we also feel happy. Therefore, we should be cautious, because the so-called progressive theory of scientism is always arguing over whether human civilization is good or bad, I do not object to it, I say prudence.

In addition, large data should protect people's privacy, the biggest problem with large data is the possibility of infringement of privacy, privacy is a very important thing in human freedom, large data expansion, and then developed, if everyone is transparent, there is no privacy, there is no basic personal freedom, what is the significance of this society?

I think I should also be cautious about such so-called progress.

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