How will technology change work life in the next decade? We asked leading technology forecaster Daniel Burrus and prominent futurists, Jennifer Jarratt and John B. Mahaffie of Leading Futurists LLC on what technologies will transform our modern workplace and the way we work. Here are some of their suggestions
Data mining
Data mining digs through large masses of information to extract critical pieces of information. And with increasing amounts of data for information workers to handle, data mining -- an area that straddles computer science and statistics -- is growing in relevance.
"A lot of this will help humans work smarter, better and faster because we have data on just about everything that happens," says Burrus.
Data mining is also pushing an expansion in the way we use and analyze data. Where it has primarily been used to predict and rate consumer behavior, Jarratt predicts the future will see data scores on all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons, from ratings on potential employees, to student prospects, health and insurance. And, it will create a whole new field of work for people who can mine data and find ways to tease out critical information.
"It is critical that (workers) have the tools to get cost and labor savings from all that data," says Jarratt. "Data mining gives companies higher levels of insights, so they can make better business decisions."
"A lot of this will help humans work smarter, better and faster because we have data on just about everything that happens," says Burrus.
Data mining is also pushing an expansion in the way we use and analyze data. Where it has primarily been used to predict and rate consumer behavior, Jarratt predicts the future will see data scores on all kinds of people for all kinds of reasons, from ratings on potential employees, to student prospects, health and insurance. And, it will create a whole new field of work for people who can mine data and find ways to tease out critical information.
"It is critical that (workers) have the tools to get cost and labor savings from all that data," says Jarratt. "Data mining gives companies higher levels of insights, so they can make better business decisions."
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