The entire information industrial complex is seeing enormous genuine potential in artificial intelligence, big data and machine-learning.

According to the Aircraft Electronics Association's year-end market report, total worldwide business and general aviation electronics sales for 2016 amounted to some $2.2 billion, which was down 6.4% from 2015 figures.

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