Post AbU32fTeeFGvgQRxYG by JohnMashey@mstdn.social
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 (DIR) Post #AbTtIYqe41YaDO8wpU by JohnMashey@mstdn.social
       2023-11-04T19:55:28Z
       
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       @brewsterkahle (as at X):@brewster_kahle Nice talking to you yesterday at wondrous event honoring @pamelasamuelson!I was reminded that "Hardware, Wetware, Software" talk that I'd first started using in 1993, recorded via UVC, later donated to @computerhistory was now up on YouTube. "Big Data" slide was here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcDC5CoSQbc&t=2373s
       
 (DIR) Post #AbTtIrCvnu4x9ii048 by brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
       2023-11-05T01:31:10Z
       
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       @JohnMashey Big Data, Hallelujah.My history of  term "Big Data", as we discussed, comes from Laurie Anderson's album (1982): Big Science, when she ends with twisted warning 'Big Science, Hallelujah,' so my use of "Big Data" was in that frame:Big Data, Hallelujah.Looking it up in the Archive, the term appears in Harper's in 1989 in seemingly right context:<see next>1/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AbTtPRtwI4uKhFy6kK by brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
       2023-11-05T01:32:09Z
       
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       @JohnMashey from harper's 1989 reference to "Big Data":"The keepers of big data say they do it for the consumer's benefit."   https://archive.org/details/harpersmagazine279julalde/page/n72/mode/1up?q=%22big+data%22a blog post and poem on Big Data from a while ago:https://brewster.kahle.org/2018/02/25/big-data-versus-humanity/https://brewster.kahle.org/2014/05/08/corporations-are-the-1st-generation-ais/2/2
       
 (DIR) Post #AbU32fTeeFGvgQRxYG by JohnMashey@mstdn.social
       2023-11-05T03:24:50Z
       
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       @brewsterkahle Thanks! Good to know the history.Steve Lohr is still on X, I’ll alert him.https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/the-origins-of-big-data-an-etymological-detective-story
       
 (DIR) Post #AbUILhiK3UhfQzqVSC by brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org
       2023-11-05T06:16:42Z
       
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       @JohnMashey I had never seen that nytimes article!  cool.and it mentions the Harper's piece.   https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/01/the-origins-of-big-data-an-etymological-detective-story/