In the 1960’s Big Data was a child – compact and sprightly, in the 80’s it grew up to be slim and manageable. Today it is an unsightly massive volume – with the handling thereof – frankly grotesque.

Added bulk with the passing of time…

Roughly ten and a half gigs of data are being transferred each and every second…

Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data…

Last year humans created 1.8 zettabytes of data…equivalent to one person taking 47 million years to watch 200 billion movies of at least 120 minutes long…

90% of all the world’s data has been created in the past two years…

The world’s technological capacity to store information has roughly doubled every 40 months since the 1980’s…

…and what will the massive data stream be like 50 years from now?

Big Data comes from everywhere: ubiquitous information-sensing mobile devices, digital images and videos, social network posts, wireless sensor networks, climate sensors, e-commerce transactions…

Today, the number of networked devices is equal to the global population. By 2015, the number of networked devices will be twice the global population.

Today there are currently about 400 million devices connected to the Internet, mostly phones and computers.

By 2020 some 50 billion devices, from cars to appliances, will be talking to one another.

Inevitably, Big Data is essential in helping to identify future business trends, eliminate fraud, filter harmful content, prevent life-threatening diseases and expose potential terrorist attacks…

We have to live with the big, but we can make it attractive…

 …effective search makes “big” beautiful again…

Let Gatfol get to the bottom of it and turn Aunt Helga into Megan Fox…