Big Data is a positive for society

Thanks to many changes, including the building of "the Internet of Things," human and machine analysis of large data sets will improve social, political, and economic intelligence by 2020. The rise of what is known as "Big Data" will facilitate things like "nowcasting" [...]. Overall, the rise of Big Data is a huge positive for society in nearly all respects.

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option b

Thanks to many changes, including the building of "the Internet of Things," human and machine analysis of Big Data will cause more problems than it solves by 2020. [...] Overall, the rise of Big Data is a big negative for society in nearly all respects.

target year

2020

subject

big data

share agree

53

share disagree

39

respondents

1021

majority view

agree

question format

tension_pair

confidence

high

published

2012-07-20