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“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. WHO

 

Increased connectivity between humans, humans and machines and between machines create a web a relationships that generate counterintuitive behaviors and turning points enable through feedback loops and delays existing within the system .

 

Now Big Data can leverage Natural human intelligence to manage and tame this interconnectedness! Big Data are the fuel of the Idea economy. Today we are just starting to extract their energy and value.

 

The harvesting of the energy and value of “Big Data” poses societal challenges such as: (McKinsey, 2011):

A 40% projected growth in global data generated per year;
5% growth in global IT spending
140,000-190,000 “data scientists” needed.