Shervin Pishevar Quotes

The world that our children living in is going to be completely different because of big data.

The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Facebook is at the forefront. It's the company that can fundamentally change the way information is being exchanged and processed. It can be the basis for artificial intelligence to develop over time.

Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.

We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.

I am a child of the 21st century.

We are moving into a world where companies will be able to offer us products and services based on our last two hours of activity. This is both exciting and frightening at the same time.

When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

We're not in an information age anymore. We're in the information management age.

The ability to collect, analyze, triangulate and visualize vast amounts of data in real time is something the human race has never had before. This new set of tools, often referred by the lofty term 'Big Data,' has begun to emerge as a new approach to addressing some of the biggest challenges facing our planet.

We're in a 21st century, transparent and connected world.

Big data knows and can deduce more about you than Big Brother ever could.

The whole concept of data science is that the software becomes the expert, and you, as the average user, are able to understand what's going on.

When I look at the next set of technologies that we have to build in Salesforce, it's all data-science-based technology. We don't need more cloud. We don't need more mobile. We don't need more social. We need more data science.

Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution.

Deep learning allows you to create predictive models at a level of quality and sophistication that was previously out of reach. And so deep learning also enhances the product function of data science because it can generate new product opportunities.

I was born in the technology era.

Technology is giving companies superpowers to compete more intelligently and capture the data behind changing trends, expanding markets, and new opportunities.

People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought.

Let's forget a little about the 19th century and start looking at the 21st century.