* Posts by Bill Mew  2 posts • joined 13 Mar 2007  Don't believe
the IT hype: Ye cannae change the laws of physics  Bill Mew
Only so much that can be gained by refining one technology until
the next revolution occurs  I agree with your assertion that a
given technology can only be refined so far - propeller driven
aircraft were refined and refined with ever diminishing returns,
until of course the jet engine revolutionised what was possible.
Your article provides a great explanation of the "law of
Physics" limitations of relational databases, but the laws can
be changed with a genuinely new technology.  The "cognitive
systems era" and IBM's Watson is just such a new technology and
Watson is entering its first wave of commercialization - to
quote El Reg   "IBM is looking ahead to a "cognitive systems
era" in which machine learning and multi-modal decision support
systems help banks and investors make better financial
decisions, help doctors make better diagnoses, help lawyers make
their arguments (rather tha