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A look into the world of big data and how its shaping almost every facet of our life now and for the future, whether we notice it or not.

• "Everything has information at its core. So if information matters, then reorganizing the entire information network of the planet is like wiring up the brain of a two year old child. Suddenly that child can talk, think, act, and behave. The world is wiring up a cerebral cortex, if you will, of billions of connected elements that are going to exchange billions of ideas billions of points of knowledge, and billions of ways of working together."
• "Our planet is beginning to develop a nervous system, with each of us acting as human sensors."
• On health:
  • "Might sound interesting, might help you shed a few pounds, might make you realize you're eating too many potato chips and sitting around too much perhaps and that's useful to you individually, but if hundreds of millions of people do that you have a big cloud of data about people's behavior that can be crawled through by pattern recognition algorithm and doctors and health policy officials can start to see patterns that change the way collectively as a society we understand not just our health but every single area where data can be applied because we start to understand how we might collectively as a culture change our culture and behavior."
  • "Everybody understands what it takes to digitize photography, a movie, a magazine, newspaper, but they haven't yet grasped what it means to digitize the medical essence of a human being. Everything about us now that is medically relevant can be captured with sensors we can digitize all of our metrics, and with imaging we can digitize our anatomy, and with sequencing of our DNA we can digitize our biology."
  • "We have 6 billion data-points sitting in our genome that we've never had access to before. We're moving to a world where the patient is at the center of things and hopefully also at the controls."

Purpose: To cherry pick a few research articles to suggest that even though our knowledge of core stability is very impressive its link to pain is poor.
Nutshell summary: People in pain have spines that function differently than those not in pain.  Many treatments can influence pain.  The spine stability model of low back pain does not explain how people have pain and takes an overly mechanical view of the pain experience.  No test has ever shown that a spine is unstable or how "increasing stability" would lead to a decrease in pain.  Thinking that our spines need more stability or control may be the completely wrong path in explaining how people have pain or how our exercises help them. Our treatment "corrections" occur not via one specific "corrective" mechanism (e.g. improving stability) but rather through global non-specific mechanisms that our better explained by our understanding of pain neuroscience.  Making the shift from believing that "stability" is the issue with pain can thus free up to choose completely different exercise programs.  Exercise and treatment prescription thus become simpler.  We have preliminary evidence to support this view with the clinical studies that show benefits with the various exercise conditioning programs that train different schools of thought on stability or the just as effective programs that completely ignore any concepts of stability.