These U.K. Researchers Will Use Big Data To Predict When You Will Die

A new computer project from the U.K. will use big data to predict you when you will die. The four-year research project will take the data collected by health providers and extract from it the life expectancy of the persons therein. What it won't be doing is giving you, the reader, an exact time, date, and cause of death, because that's still science fiction. The research, from the University of East Anglia in the U.K., will use the data it collects to identify trends in death. That is, given the vast pool of data available from health care providers, who like to know everything then can about you, the researchers will be able to see how things like drugs and lifestyle choices affect us.