Chapter 10. 2010 to 2019: Clouds, Crowds, Blogs, Big Data, and Predictive Analytics

This book was started in the middle of 2012 and finished in the spring of 2013. Therefore, only a little more than two years of actual history were available to discuss for this decade. Using trends from prior decades, I could make some predictions of things that might occur between 2013 and 2019. Of course, knowing the future can be difficult.

The early years of this decade witnessed a rapid growth of companies providing services for the cloud (applications and data stored remotely on the web but available for local use). There was also a remarkable increase in new companies that want to use crowds of possibly thousands of people to focus on common goals. The ...

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