The fourth paradigm of science Tom Smith

Seems a bit overblown to me.  I'm probably missing something but I'm not sure what the points are beyond, really big studies are (or can be) better than merely big, let alone small studies; it's great to have computers to analyze data; and Serg Brin is worth $15 billion and so can afford to give $50 million for Parkinson's research, which he has done, because his mom has it and he's afraid he might get it someday.  I do certainly agree you can discover all sorts of things by looking at big data sets and computers make this possible, and the bigger and faster the computers, the bigger the datasets you can analyze.