This document discusses big data, the Internet of Things (IoT), analytics, and foresight. It focuses on natural language generation, systems of insight, and deep learning. Key points include that by 2020-2022, natural language generation will be used in smart data discovery platforms to automatically present narratives summarizing findings from data. Systems of insight will enable automated pattern extraction, outlier detection, correlation analysis, and integration of analytics with processes, applications, and IoT systems. The document provides references and examples relating to big data, data science, machine learning, and the use of algorithms.