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In the talk, there's a parallel drawn between the nuclear industry 60 years ago and big data now, where the nuclear was originally touted as a miracle cure for
by diafygi 8y ago
In the talk, there's a parallel drawn between the nuclear industry 60 years ago and big data now, where the nuclear was originally touted as a miracle cure for everything, then disasters happened, then it never really got over the stigma despite its huge potential.
Society decided, for now, the upsides aren't worth the downsides.
Oil is another parallel where society is currently just at the point where we are starting to not value the upsides over the downsides.
- Scooty 8y agoSeems like oil and nuclear energy are different because both can be replaced with alternative sources of energy. What are the alternative sources of user data?
- tankerslay 8y agoPaper records, human memory.... Comparing growth in data storage versus energy usage per capita is interesting. Even if you look back to the founding of the U.S., the change in energy use per person is actually only a few fold, definitely less than an order of magnitude. Harder to compare quantity of data storage but the change would seem much larger. How much data is there, per U.S. person?
- r00fus 8y agoWhy is data a requirement to keep? Currently has value with externalized downsides.