How are "cheap parallel computing" and "big data" two things and not one? On top of that, those are hardly breakthroughs, they are the natural thing to happen w

How are "cheap parallel computing" and "big data" two things and not one? On top of that, those are hardly breakthroughs, they are the natural thing to happen when the CPU speed hike ends. If we can't build faster, we'll build more. Statistics (aka "soft AI") is the only application that can still grow because it is so much easier to scale than anything else.