20 Great, Not-So-Great and Sometimes Scary Moments in the History of Big Data


1) November 1936: The U.S. government starts issuing Social Security numbers.

2) June 8, 1949: George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” is first published.

3) Some time in 1971 (the specific date is lost to history): IBM engineer George Laurer creates the Universal Product Code (UPC).

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