American TVs and VCRs were big and clumsy.

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Both are transforming big clumsy data into big potent data, and even big pervasive data.

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The financial crisis of 2008 shined a bright light on the behavior of large financial institutions, which had become too complex to regulate, too clumsy to manage and, according to the government, too big to fail.

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