We assume many of you are familiar with the work of Clifford Stoll, author of both “The Cuckoo’s Egg” and “Silicon Snake Oil.” The latter, which was written 15 years ago, stated, “the Internet ...

These past few months have not been kind to any of us. The ripples caused by the COVID-19 crisis are felt far and wide, and the world's economies have taken a staggering blow. As with most things in ...

There’s undoubtedly more information available now than at any other point in human history. In 2015, it was reported that more data has been created in the prior two years than in the past two ...

Explore how society uses and interacts with data to understand and navigate the world. Humans have always used data to help them understand and navigate the world. In recent years, advances in ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The information businesses have in their possession is more than just a collection of files ...

It’s not an accident that data is the bedrock of the Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (DIKW) pyramid made famous by Russell Ackoff in 1989. That expresses the common conviction that data are the ...

Although federal EHR technology investments had disappointing results, they were necessary to start digitizing the nation's health care data and set the stage for a promising future. An architecture ...

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of ...