There’s nothing like walking into a large library. It’s thrilling to smell the old paper and imagine all the thoughts, ideas and discoveries contained in a single building. The internet is like that too — only without the book smell and with shopping included.
That sense of discovery and new ideas that libraries and the internet bring is similar to what machine learning and people analytics can offer, only in this case it’s provided by machines processing more data than we can hold in our heads and showing us things about ourselves and our organizations that we couldn’t see otherwise.
