In the next decade, Year Zero will be how big data reaches everyone and will fundamentally change how we live.

What will be the impacts of Big Data (and to a lesser extend IoT), predictive analytics on our lives in the future? I enjoyed the talk broadcast from Starta+Hadoop San Jose Conference earlier this year... and I just found they've done a great synthesis of the talk. When you enjoy listening to a talk 2 times, it's time to share it!

Read the complete article , featuring the talk video: Year Zero: Our life timelines begin

Every decade or so, something from military or enterprise technology finds its way, bent and twisted, into the mass market. The client-server computer gave us the PC; wide-area networks gave us the consumer web; pagers and cell phones gave us mobile devices. In the next decade, Year Zero will be how big data reaches everyone.

Watch the keynote on Youtube to get the key points (5:24 min)

Ultimately, this is a profound social challenge, and one that I believe will become the moral issue of the next decade: nobody should know more about you than you do. Others might understand the data better — your banker understands your finances; your doctor understands your health. But you should be able to look at it because the tools that analyze and visualize it are improving rapidly and becoming agent-based.

But also read the article, which pinpoint the morale and societal points of view really well!