The original roaring 20s actually were 100 years ago, but we may be about to see a new version of this. If it’s going to be “a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge”, then both the economic and the cultural aspects will no doubt be all about data.
As a leading analyst and journalist with an eye on all things data, AI, and innovation, at the end of each year I publish a review and outlook on the year’s defining trends. This year, since it’s the end of a decade, I’ll try and go a bit further.
Here are the 5+1 defining trends of the new decade. Because big data has brought us big things. A countdown, in which you’ll get to learn about the topics at hand in a concise way, and hear some insights as to why they are important and where they are heading next.
Talk given at Big Things 2019 Conference
4. IT’S THE END OF BLOCKCHAIN AS WE KNOW IT,
AND I FEEL FINE
US Online Media
Why?
Big & mature market, pronounced need
Available data sources, data literacy
Experience and established connections
5. THE STORY SO FAR
BLOCKCHAIN PEAK OF INFLATED EXPECTATIONS
8. ON CLOUD 9
OR, ON HOW MANY CLOUDS ACTUALLY?
US Online Media
Why?
Big & mature market, pronounced need
Available data sources, data literacy
Experience and established connections
12. CLOUD DOES NOT PAY
OPEN SOURCE IS NOT FREE
US Online Media
Why?
Big & mature market, pronounced need
Available data sources, data literacy
Experience and established connections
16. AI FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING,
COMMON SENSE REASONING, AND MORE
17. The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
The data economy demands a new approach to antitrust rules
THE STORY SO FAR
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY DATA
21. THE STORY SO FAR
KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS = DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE
Domain knowledge can effectively help a
deep learning system bootstrap its knowledge
By encoding primitives instead of forcing the
model to learn these from scratch
26. YOU ARE HERE
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH IT?
I have not met a single CEO, from
Deutsche Bank to JP Morgan,
who said to me: 'ok, this will
increase our productivity by a
huge amount, but it's going to
have social impact -- wait, let's
think about it'.
Chetan Dube, IPSoft CEO
27. THE FUTURE
YOU CHOOSE
Who owns the
machines?Who should
own the machines?
LauraTyson, former
Chair of the US
President's Council of
EconomicAdvisers
We are at the beginning
of mass extinction, and
all you can talk about is
money and fairy tales of
eternal economic
growth
GretaThunberg,Activist
We humans have to go to
space if we are going to
continue to have a
thriving civilization.We
are in the process of
destroying this planet
Jeff Bezos,Amazon CEO