Entering the age of big information

摘要

Historians will ultimately come to a consensus on what to call the days between the frenzy that was the dot-com bubble and the period we are now on the cusp of entering. I call this brief blip (1995-2005) the Age of Little Information. I come to this label not because the age exhibited a lack of information. Quite the contrary; it was during this period that information — previously locked away in analogue form — became widely digitized. All this newly digitized data had little impact on behaviour, however.