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Category: IoT

  • DATA WORLD: Information Technology Mirror Balls! – 2026/01/12

    DATA WORLD: Information Technology Mirror Balls! – 2026/01/12

    Coffee and cakes for breakfast
    On the Way of Saint James

    Martyn Rhisiart Jones

    Brussels, 10th July 2019

    Bandoxa, 12th January 2026

    Imagine stepping onto a dimly lit stage, spotlight sharp, audience hushed. You lean into the mic and drop this line: “The key to success is sincerity.” Pause. Smile. “And if you can fake that… you’ve got it made.”

    That’s George Burns, vaudeville legend, and cigar-chomping centenarian. He nails a truth that’s as old as show business. It is as fresh as today’s latest tech pitch deck.

    Welcome to the strange, glittering world of information technology, where sincerity isn’t just optional—it’s optional and highly monetisable.

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  • Information Technology Mirror Balls!

    Information Technology Mirror Balls!

    Coffee and cakes for breakfast
    On the Way of Saint James

    Martyn Richard Jones

    Brussels, 10th July 2019

    As George Burns put it “the key to success is sincerity” and “if you can fake that you’ve got it made.”

    He was right, and you don’t need to go any further than the bizarre world of information technology, with its plethora of professional bulllshit artists, to work this one out.

    Think of these folk as IT bullshit whisperers.

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  • The Big Data Shell Game

    The Big Data Shell Game

    To the experienced observer, Big Data propaganda may well appear to be a disorganised surfeit of half-truths, sleights of hand and boloney. Indeed, the once famously alliterative characterisation of Big Data as defined by volumes, variety and velocity, seems now more appropriately applied to the quantity, invariability and quality of the incessant self-aggrandising hype, hokum and Hadoop being astro-turfed by every dog and his guru. Indeed, the very fact that such an inevitable mega-trend needs so much hype, disingenuousness and spin to support its passage to universal applicability, is a massive contradiction, a disservice to professionals, and an artless deception worthy of our criticism and condemnation. (more…)