The Zeitgeist Juncture of “Big Data” and its Future Trends

With the prime objective of understanding the direction in which the field of big data is heading, this paper emphasizes on the recent and upcoming trends in big data. The human brain handles big data in all its forms very efficiently and almost instantaneously, no matter what is the granularity of the data. The idea behind the field of processing big data is to mimic the manner in which the natural brain works and handles big data. All the fields and subfields of machine intelligence are based on identifying and mimicking the natural methods which are used by mother nature to handle big data. The current trends are mainly moving towards processing big data using the cloud infrastructure and machine learning techniques. By and large the intention of artificial intelligence lies in developing a humanoid robot which can work, talk and think like a human being. The future trends of big data are being applied to such techniques as microprocessors processing big data in a robot’s-brain to plan its actions, express emotions and ultimately to think like a human being.