[dba-Tech] Our future

[Jim Lawrence]

The following video is not about our current geopolitical environment but about what technology will be used to analyse it. 

In our future systems, as described in the vid, will review our pass and be used to predict our future. It may seem incredible but the price tag for such power is not so large that only a few can have access. All the software is OSS and the demo shown was hacked together, in a huge mashup, in hours. This demo is done on the IBM LinuxOne system but this again this can be designed from much cheaper equipment as the Operating System is Open Source. 

I wonder how long it will be before folks in all our technical fields will have and be able to build their own businesses from needs and trends discovered (mined) in streams of our real-time data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWBNoIwGEjo

I think we are on the event horizon of some very exciting times.

Interesting aside: Over fifty to sixty years ago, author and scientist Isaac Asimov, predicted such capabilities and use, in his Foundation series of books. Then it was little more than science fiction and now it will be our reality. Well worth the read if you haven't done so:

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/2335/what-order-should-asimovs-foundation-series-be-read-in
  
Jim