Every year, Silicon Valley creates new buzzwords to make its startup founders, corporate spokespeople, and “thought leaders” feel like they’re doing something important.
According to linguists, jargon proliferates in Silicon Valley’s tech scene faster than almost anywhere else.
For one thing, terms like “big data,” “(data/infrastructure/software/platform) as a service,” and “Internet of things” are a convenient way to describe highly complex technologies. It takes a far more advanced level of understanding to explain how processes actually work.
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