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The difference between data and oil is that you aren't going to drive to the oilfields one morning and find that it's all been hacked and stolen. Data is collec
by rm_-rf_slash 11y ago
The difference between data and oil is that you aren't going to drive to the oilfields one morning and find that it's all been hacked and stolen. Data is collected. Oil is sold.
- saryant 11y ago> The difference between data and oil is that you aren't going to drive to the oilfields one morning and find that it's all been hacked and stolen. Ask Western oil workers in Libya or Nigeria or Venezuela or Mexico (depending on the decade) how accurate they feel that sentence is. Oil concessions have been regularly expropriated.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoFine then, stolen at the click of a button. Oil is a finite resource, software isn't. We create our own scarcity. Oil = software is a lazy metaphor.
- saryant 11y agoAs opposed to the stroke of a pen?
- sharky93 11y agoI guess saying 'oil' is being a bit too specific. It is more like the 'energy' that drives the modern economy? and that is sold and you find new avenues everyday of collecting(producing) it. But yeah, it digresses a bit too much from this post I guess.
- Terr_ 11y agoUnless the real resource companies are grabbing for involves "EXCLUSIVE data", which allows them to extract/demand value as the gatekeepers.