Things always change fast in computing. But the rate of change seems to be on a major uptick recently. In this post, I want to focus on an accelerating driver of that change, a looming crisis on the horizon, and a surprising link between the two that may have big promise. In the spirit of blog discourse, let’s lay this out in broad strokes: The Industrial Revolution of Data. Today’s world-wide web remains a staggering tribute to the typing abilities of the human race. But even with a growing global population, typists are not a scalable source of bit-production going forward. We are entering an era where the overwhelming majority of […]