Data is clay. We are still struggling to make bricks. We are still very far from building a house out of it, much less a large building. And we're going to even

Data is clay. We are still struggling to make bricks. We are still very far from building a house out of it, much less a large building. And we're going to eventually find out that we can't make skyscrapers out of it at all. Just like bricklayers haven't even remotely been replaced with robots, I doubt the data-mungers will be, either. We are probably on the cusp of a whole new generation of "data people" who will have careers that span a generation, and do nothing but sift through data.