Introduction
People of wisdom proverbially taught us that lots can be done by a stem of grass at the time of need if safely preserved. That stem of grass metaphorically signifies anything which prima facie appears to be trifling. They wanted us to be more cautious, vigilant and apply providential judgement before rejecting or accepting anything. Their advice was to follow this rule even for anything that is ranked as trivial in common parlance. A goldsmith knows this better than any other professional because of being mindful that his work process generates tiny gold particles which get mixed up with volumes of other unwanted particles. He never uses a traditional broom to sweep his workshop and throws the gathered dust. Instead, he uses a specially crafted brush and preserves gatherings in a container. The art and scienceof extracting gold from dust has been passed on to him through generations which he has further upgraded. Why this rule should be different in this era of hyper social media activism and neck breaking speed of contents creations by all and sundry, when data is called the new gold mine? An experiment to prove that different types of digital dusts (DDs) are gathered by open digital objects can be performed by a simple task. Let an account in Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter be opened by anybody with minimum and mandatory information and left for some days as it is. One would most certainly find that many unwanted information, notices, advice, contents, etc. have been thrown at that account. Infliction of such digital dusts would be more if that person has an account in more than one media or Applications (App) under control of the same digital giant as Google for Gmail and YouTube.
Business entities mostly gather varieties of DDs thrown at them by customers and other stakeholders. Most of those are sought for and welcomed, and even if not, efforts are made to make meaning out of those. This is because, as readers would further read in following paragraphs, refined DDs help getting business intelligence, formulating business strategies, and generating income in a digitally transformed operating environment like that goldsmith getting gold from shopfloor dusts. Smart Dusts (SDs) on the other hand are self-inserted digital dusts which are used for enhancing multiplicity of applications and effectiveness of certain digital devices and platforms. SDs are also enablers for gathering DDs. More have been explained about these in some of the following segments.Learn more  from pdf >>>>>>