Me, SF Prophet

I revealed earlier how my 30-year-old story "Snow" predicted miniature flying drones capable of recording thousands of hours of a particular subject's life, and called (as at least one current model is) a Wasp.  I am absolutely (not) certain I was the first.

Now here's an article on Big Data and how we are to begin to understand the quasi-physics and quasi-biology of digital information increasing at the rate of 5 trillion bits a second, and how that understanding will produce, or require, a new set of laws of human behavior.  Hari Seldon is referenced, naturally, but a more pertinent picture was in my 1989 story "In Blue," which posited a number of new analytic tools (coincidence magnitude calculation, the differential social calculus, act-field theory) with which wise social engineers could enter and be usefully influenced by the universal data stream.  I didn't then own a computer and knew nothing about them, which of course does not inhibit the true prophet.  The fact that my analytics were entirely imaginary is no drawback either, surely.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/science/big-datas-parallel-universe-brings-fears-and-a-thrill.html?ref=science