Conclusion
Every few years, we see new technology trends emerge. No major technology since the rise of the internet has managed to thrive without enriching the data economy. Be it AI, Big data, Cloud computing, Blockchain, the IoT, 5G, or quantum computing, they all interact with the data economy and contribute to it. Some of them have more use cases at the Application Layer, some of them at the Protocol Layer, and some of them at the Physical/infrastructure Layer. Irrespective of that, they have all been disruptive at scale.
The internet laid the foundations of these exciting few years of data innovation. Social media built on them. Once we had data created through social media, it was all about making the most of it using emerging technologies. Some of these technology paradigms had been around even before the advent of the internet and social media. But the availability of rich, contextual user data helped innovators refine their approach in using and further developing...
