The Meta COVID-19 Pandemic Period: A Data Science Driven Wise Future Planet?

Groumpos, P. P.

The COVID-19 pandemic is a sign of how vulnerable and fragile our world is. The virus has upended societies, put the world’s population is in grave danger, and exposed deep inequalities. Data have been generated since Ancient times. A historical review of the data information explosion landscape is very interesting. A new scientific area has emerged due to the big number of data been generated every day: The Big Data-Driven World (BDDW) dominates all planet’s activities. The arrival of COVID-19 has complicated the BDDW. Creating new knowledge has always been a challenging issue. The role of BDDW in creating new knowledge is important and briefly explained. The need to differentiate between knowledge and wisdom is dictated by the BDDW. New “Wise Knowledge” (WK) and the “Wise Data Science” (WDS) scientific field is formulated and defined for the first time. A new generic decision-making algorithm is proposed for generating the WK and the WDS. The way to build in the future a “Wise Planet driven by Data Science” based on the “Wise Data Science” and “Wise Knowledge” is provided for the first time. Finally, how to avoid the new phenomenon “My Current Knowledge, my Tomorrow’s Delusion?!” is stressed. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.