Natural Language Processing. To me it epitomizes the Bezos saying on how it's always Day 1 of the Internet. In just a few years we've moved from an Internet wh

Natural Language Processing. To me it epitomizes the Bezos saying on how it's always Day 1 of the Internet. In just a few years we've moved from an Internet where nearly every website could be listed in a directory, where CONTENT was precious, to an Internet where content is being created on an exponential curve. So now comes the next phase where you start looking at content in aggregate. All your sentiment analysis, summarization, text analytics, pattern spotting...the shift to thinking about text in bulk. This is a new way of thinking about text. It was downright radical in the 1960s (see also the Federalist papers), and only in recent years a bunch of factors have come together to make this new view of text more common.