Cornelius Baur and Dominik Wee:

We define Industry 4.0 as the next phase in the digitization of the manufacturing sector, driven by four disruptions: the astonishing rise in data volumes, computational power, and connectivity, especially new low-power wide-area networks; the emergence of analytics and business-intelligence capabilities; new forms of human-machine interaction such as touch interfaces and augmented-reality systems; and improvements in transferring digital instructions to the physical world, such as advanced robotics and 3-D printing.

Michael Fertik:

Say goodbye to Big Data as a dominant concept -- it's time to recognize its evolutionary next leap: Big Analysis.

James Gleick:

Humans seem to crave the precision that is available.

Sqrrl:

DHS has already begun to revamp cybersecurity defenses to incorporate the powerful potential of big data security analytics.

Gary Bernhardt:

Consulting service: you bring your big data problems to me, I say "your data set fits in RAM", you pay me $10,000 for saving you $500,000.