Category Archives: Predictions
Big Data Bytes of the Week: The End of Big Data?
The end of Big Data? Based on his discussions with CIOs, reports Derrick Harris at GigaOm, Opera Solutions’ CEO Arnab Gupta “thinks the analytics market will crest around the end of next year as CIOs face enormous data spikes.” Is … Continue reading
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Scenarios for the Future of the IT Industry
In November 1998, I sent to my then-colleagues at EMC an email with the subject line “The Demise of Dell.” I wrote: “My fail-proof crystal ball just talked to me again: By the end of 2000, Dell’s market cap (today at $80B) will be … Continue reading
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Gartner on Big Data
In its just-published Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing 2012, Gartner predicts that “Big Data will deliver transformational benefits to enterprises within 2 to 5 years, and by 2015 will enable enterprises adopting this technology to outperform competitors by 20% in … Continue reading
Predictions for CMOs and Digital Marketing in 2015
In 2015, digital marketing budgets will increase by 8%, according to a recent Gartner’s CMO Spend Report, a survey of 315 marketing decision makers representing organizations with more than $500 million in annual revenue. Customer experience is the top innovation … Continue reading
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2015 Predictions for the Big Data Analytics Market
The big data and analytics market will reach $125 billion worldwide in 2015, according to IDC. Both IDC and The International Institute of Analytics (IIA) discussed their big data and analytics predictions for 2015 in separate webcasts last month. Here are … Continue reading
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Internet of Things (IoT) Predictions
For the third year in a row, the Internet of Things has dominated CES. More than 900 companies out of 3,800 at the show said they had Internet of Things products. Andrew Begin at Mirum observed that the IoT has … Continue reading
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Predictions about AI in 2024
The future of AI, according to Forrester, IDC and Gartner. Read more
Data will Continue to Eat the World in 2021
54 predictions about the state of data, AI, and ML in the near future Continue reading
Why It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future
The year 2020 has been featured in many predictions and long-term visions in the past, implying not only the terminal point for the forecast or planning period but also a crystal-clear crystal ball. Now that the year 2020 is our … Continue reading
99 Predictions About AI in 2020
“Q: How worried do you think we humans should be that machines will take our jobs? A: It depends what role machine intelligence will play. Machine intelligence in some cases will be useful for solving problems, such as translation. But … Continue reading