What is Neologism?

Neologism means The coining or use of new words – And I believe it’s one of the challenge faced by IT professionals. Nowadays, we put our time & energy trying to get head around “new terms/words/trends”.

Let’s take couple of example(s):

Sometime back, we had cloud computing. Nowadays, its Big Data; In my mind – Big Data has been coined to mean following technologies/techniques under different contexts:

Note: The above image is just for illustration purpose. It does not comprehensively cover every technology that is now called “Big Data”. Feel free to point it out if you think I missed something important.

And Neologism is challenge because:

1) Generally, it’s a new trend and there is little to no consensus on what does it “Exactly” mean

2) It means different things in different context

3) Every person can have their own “interpretation” and no one is wrong.

4) It’s a moving ball. The definition used today will change in future. So we always need a “working” definition for these terms.

Now, Don’t get me wrong, It’s fun trying to figure out what does it all mean and trying to gauge whether it matters to me and my organization or not! What do you think – as a Person in Information Technology, do you think that Neologism is one of the challenges faced by us? consider leaving a reply in the comment section!

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