By 
Tim Smith
 | 
TED-Ed Original

Big Data

There is a mind-boggling amount of data floating around our society. Physicists at CERN have been pondering how to store and share their ever more massive data for decades- stimulating globalization of the internet along the way, whilst 'solving' their big data problem. Tim Smith plots CERN's involvement with big data from fifty years ago to today. [Directed by Biljana Labovic, narrated by Tim Smith, music by Corey Allen Jackson].

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