Author: Thomas Wright
History demonstrates that human beings placed great importance on maintaining records. Perhaps, the concept of mathematics, starting with natural numbers, stemmed from the urge of counting livestock and recording them in some form.
With the passage of time, the necessity of keeping records gave birth to data storage mediums, which later transformed to electronic devices. And now that we are in 2015, cloud storage does the trick!
Naturally, the question arises that why have we banked so much on data and are always looking for better, compact methods of storing them in compressed, systematized, retrievable formats? The answer to this question is simple, but not obvious - data drives the economy in the 21st century.