Every Datum Tells a Story: The dawning of the age of meta-information – City Journal
Mark P. Mills, M. Anthony Mills – Jun 29 2014
…computer and software experts gather at conferences to talk about how big and unprecedented the numbers are, how the concept of “big data” changes everything. Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, observed at a recent seminar that “what we’re talking about is something humanity has never tried to deal with before.”