The Numerati -R

Alphabet soup gives way to binary soup.

So far we've looked at how the info soup, which we are dumplings in,  has morphed along with its supporting technologies to become more human/personally centered, ubiquitous and user friendly.

Advertisers, employers, teachers and so on can 'push' pertinent content to a users stationary or mobile location.

I remember watching some show about 5 years ago when this guy was saying that 50% of the jobs that will exist in 10 years time have not been invented yet. 

The explosion in online activity and networking has seen a corresponding explosion in data collection and analysis. But according to Steve Baker, a senior writer for BusinessWeek, it's only in very recent times that we've started to see the development of an elite class of people who've begun to take data management – and sometimes manipulation – to an entirely new level. He calls them the Numerati.

 People and organisations have been collecting data for millennia, how many of us there are, and why we vote the way we do, what we like to eat, all of that sort of thing.

Computers of course have made it possible to gather that data on a once-unimaginable scale. Though as any good pollster will tell you, having data and knowing how to use it are two very different things.

Now the explosion in online activity and networking has seen a corresponding explosion in data collection and analysis. 

[Source ABC radio national's Future tense - streme the podcast below or download from ABC/rn :http://www.abc.net.au/rn/futuretense/stories/2009/2578378.htm]

Listen to the podcast below for an interesting take on how, who and why.


And to further explain and describe the trend have a look at the www.ted.com video from Jonathon Harris in 2007, we're seeing commercial examples of Harris's 'Universe' program in the mainstream now.
Jonathon Harris and "The Web's Secret Stories" from that wonderful site www.ted.com.

Its from platforms such as Harris's 'Univese' program [see video] that we can see aspects of what is termed the 'Semantic Web' emerging, here massive data sets are agglomerated and manipulated in real time.