Information architecture applied to big data streaming, AI

Data management expert William McKnight has long espoused a well-designed information architecture as an effective means of bringing order to a continuous procession of new data technologies. In this Q&A, the second of two parts from an interview with the president of McKnight Consulting Group, he discusses what organizations need to do to adapt as AI and big data streaming rise in importance. McKnight also assesses how the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will affect data management processes. Among the areas that now seem to be calling us to revisit essential information architecture principles is big data streaming. What makes that such an active area of interest now?