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And yet, we have companies building their value based on giant, secret hoards of information hidden away in their lairs, offering mere glimpses of treasures (or
by gmueckl 6y ago
And yet, we have companies building their value based on giant, secret hoards of information hidden away in their lairs, offering mere glimpses of treasures (or horrors) within through their APIs.
Just try to imagine what would happen if the entirety of Facebook's or Google's user were dumped somewhere for everybody to rifle through... The only saving grace here seems to be that the amounts of data are so huge that copying it all takes an unreasonable amount of resources.
- hashtagmarkup 6y agoThis doesn't really have anything to do with Google and Facebook. Did you read the article?
- gmueckl 6y agoTo quote from.the article: > Information has not become more seamless. My comment is a reflection on this.
- hashtagmarkup 6y agoDo you know what "reflection" means? You're not making any sense.
- gmueckl 6y agoThe Oxford dictionary lists multiple definitions of reflection. One is "your written or spoken thoughts about a particular subject or topic".