How the fear of the unknown made me achieve the impossible

Before the big data explosion, I had always wondered how big data could be managed (though I did not know what it would be referred to as then). Around 2002, when the use of technology saw a great increase, I became fascinated by how technologies such as fingerprinting and voice recognition systems worked. And so, whenever I would come across such systems, I would always take a peek at them to see if there was anything that I could tally with my existing knowledge.