[Written June 24, 2014]
The company that invented free printers, expensive ink [not totally true], has a new vision for blurring the line further between memory and storage.
During her explanation, CEO Meg Whitman asks
“What if you [the CEO] could analyze the contents of 1,000,000,000,000 customer relationship records in the blink of an eye [without having to make an IT request – big sneering smile]
Flashback to Computerworld in the 1970s – welcome Artificial Intelligence – now you can look at your company’s data without needing programmers!
New paradigm? I don’t think so.
Let’s put Meg in charge of finding the IRS email records. Maybe Thomas Edison can find them in New Jersey.
“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.”
Clifford Stoll
http://www.ted.com/talks/clifford_stoll_on_everything#t-1056505