By sylvia kronstadt - August 24, 2012 | Tickers: ACN, EMC, HPQ, INTC, IBM, TDC | 0 Comments

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Maybe you'd better Google yourself and find out if this crazy, grandiloquent, power-mad computer mastermind named Kalev Leetaru has targeted you yet. If not, just wait awhile.

He has posted an entire web page ABOUT ME, and the extent to which I pose a threat to Big Oil, even though all I ever do is sit here quietly, hating Big Oil. He claims I am "associated" with the Dalai Lama, Anderson Cooper, and Beyonce. I love that!

He swears his analysis of more than 10 billion people, places, things, and activities -- connected by over 100 trillion relationships -- enabled him to predict the "Arab Spring," as well as where Osama bin Laden would be found. So I bet he knows where you are!

He intends to learn everything about everybody, so he can forecast the future for his clients. But it only took me two days to find the fatal flaw in his mind-boggling machinations.

Big Data is not just a fact, which is piling up, unstoppably, all around us. It's also one big messy heap of an issue. The business media are filled with articles about how best to use the technologies, what sorts of horizontal and vertical alliances are prudent, how to get your juicy slab of the billions of dollars at stake, and to what extent privacy concerns will constrain the ever-bigger HUGENESS that makes the numbers people so ecstatic.

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BIG DATA: Is it Artificial Intelligence, or Authentic Stupidity?