Today’s world is Big Data, with explosive unstructured data from Internet, Mobile phones, tablets, soon the IoT (Internet of Things), ie devices such as car, fridge, oven, washing machines…equipped with wireless Wi-Fi connectivity to Internet…
Top Mathematicians will be the global elites of the D.T. (Data Technology) Age — as the Alibaba.com Chairman Jack Ma predicts.
http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/stories/2006-01-22/math-will-rock-your-world