"The Dispossessed is a novel about what happens to a society that refuses to use big data analytics for even the most critical problems"
I haven't read the book, but from the description it sounds like what they need isn't Big Data Analytics but a just modicom of basic Project Management.
Surely you don't need to go to "Big Data" to estimate how much fresh water your population needs, or calculate the number of desalination plants required to generate it?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
