THE CODE ISSUE 17

Duda Owner IONOS • July 22, 2015

Here is another one of my favorite quotes from the special double issue of Bloomberg Businessweek on computer coding. This one suggests that there are some worms that we will never get back into the can (Paul Ford, “The Code Issue”, 6/15/15–6/28/15, p. 72):

“ Data management is the problem that programming is supposed to solve. But of course now that we have computers everywhere, we keep generating more data, which requires more programming, and so forth. It’s a [major] problem with no end in sight. This is why people in technology make so much money. Not only do they sell infinitely reproducible nothings, but they sell so many of them that they actually have to come up with new categories of infinitely reproducible nothings just to handle what happened with the last batch. That’s how we ended up with ‘big data.’ I’ve been to big-data conferences, and they are packed. ”

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