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The current ‘big data’ era is not new. There have been other periods in human <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/civilisation" target="_blank">civilisation</a> where we have been overwhelmed by data. By looking at these periods we can understand how a shift from <em>discrete</em> to <em>abstract</em> methods demonstrate why the emphasis should be on algorithms not code.