Not the exact title of the Pew Internet Project‘s latest survey on “big data.”
The project homepage reports: The Future of Big Data by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie.
You won’t discover that title reading the report.
As a matter of fact, the phrase, “future of big data” occurs only twice and never in a title.
The formalities of report writing to one side, the report has quotes for whatever side you can to take on the future of “big data” debate. Forward to your PR department.
I get a sense from the report there will be winners and losers in a future that includes “big data.”
But no more so than the integrated circuit brought to an end the short lived TV repair industry based on vacuum tubes.
I suggest planning on being on the side of, if not one of, the winners in the coming changes wrought by “big data.”
In that regard, the techniques and technologies are changing too rapidly to make long term bets.
Be flexible and remember that technologies are only as good as they are useful (or thought to be useful by users or governments).
Find religion outside of technology. You will stay on the cutting edge longer.