Big Data Is The Steam Engine Of Our Time

Big Data Is The Steam Engine Of Our Time Enlarge this image toggle caption Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images We inhabit a world of blinding technological change. Sponsor Message Ultimately, the promise of Big Data is the ability to understand a seemingly chaotic world on levels never before imagined. As strange as it may seem, Big Data may be the steam engine of our time. Through new fields like data science and network theory, Big Data will not only change the world we move through as individuals, it will change the world we imagine through science.