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No, Data Is Not the New Oil
- alexgmcm 8y agoThe idea that data is remotely as valuable as one of the highest energy density power sources known to man (at least that can be safely handled and conveniently used) is utterly bizarre and shows how much of a bubble the tech world has become. Without oil we have a Mad Max style dystopia, without data perhaps your ads won't be so personalised.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Without oil we have a Mad Max style dystopia, without data ...we have no civilization, or even recognizably human community, at all. Data existed before it was digital. Modern forms of data storage and transmittal have increased it's density, total quantity, the speed and flexibility with which it can be moved about, and the ability to process it (which, among other things, generates more of it), but data has always been the lifeblood of humanity as something more than a collection of bestial individuals.