so, created by IBM and so it's it was able to contain much less data
than you could even store right now on your computer or even on your cell phone.
And so what this suggests is that over
time as technology increases, big data will change.
So, one way to solve the big data problem is to just sort
of wait until the hardware catches up with the size of the data.
But most questions that you're trying to answer don't necessarily have the big data
component that necessitates the need of huge
numbers of computers, although sometimes it does.
So why is big data such a big deal now?
Well this is only one example of that.
So, there was an experiment run by Stanley Milgram where he
took 296 individuals and he, what he tried to do was basically
send them a letter and ask them to send a letter from
someone they knew and so forth until they went a specific address.
And so, 64 of these such chains came back, so 64 out of 296.
And from that they found out that there were about 5.2 people in between
the person that originally got the letter
and the person that finally received the letter.
And this is where this sort of six degrees of separation sort of came about.