
The Infinite Retina
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Data clouds and data floods are coming to our factories and businesses, thanks in part to the 5G infrastructure that’s been built. This is bringing a storm of change and a need to see patterns in that data in a whole new way.
A few years ago, we visited the new Jameson Distillery near Cork, Ireland. At one point, we asked the chief engineer, who was proudly showing us around its new building and machines that make the whiskey, “How many sensors are in this factory?”
“So many I don’t even know the number.” That was more than nine years ago. Today, some warehouses and factories have hundreds of thousands of robots and millions of sensors. You won’t find anything useful in the data that’s streaming off by using Microsoft Excel; there’s just too much data to look through grids of numbers.
Los Angeles-based Suzie Borders has a better idea. Turn those millions of numbers streaming off...
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