Big data can help shape society by finding out the opinion of the population to see which policies are preferred by the majority. This can influence government decisions and change the way the world works.
Medicine and healthcare could possibly be improved with the use of big data because looking at past medicine results and how well things worked can help predict what will work best for future patients. This may increase the populations age as people will likely live longer.
The rate of crime may be lowered because of big data analytics we would have a better understanding of what makes crime more likely to happen therefore allowing us to avoid crime. This will result in a safer society to live in with potentially lower death rate.
Even though big data may be overall good for society, these improvements could negatively affect some peoples lives as individuals. For example if crime rates were lower then a lot of police jobs may be cut, leaving lots of people without a job and this could impact the economy.
People may not like the fact that they are being shown tailored advertisements due to big data as they could feel like they are being spied on by companies and manipulated for their money.
Lots of people want to stay private online and with big data advances this is now very difficult to be private. There may be a lack of privacy in society because of big data.
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