We use the word megatrend so
often today; it’s a trend all of its own, it has passed from neologism, to
buzzword, to vernacular. I was however curious in my digging around in what I
believe to be the most talked about megatrend today: Big Data, what the commonly
understood definitions of mega- and meta-trends would be. I wrote about megatrends a
few months back.
I understand meta as a prefix to be referencing a higher hierarchy, or
description of the word it’s affixed too (it also happens to be my sisters nick
name – just in case you were wondering).
Meta-linguistics would be the science about linguistics rather
than the science of linguistics. Metadata would be a definition or description of data.
