A piece by Yuval Noah Harari in the Financial Times this weekend delves into our fascination with Big Data. The tech industry has made so many billions of dollars being able to track, quantify and insert itself into our behavior that many have signed on as adherents to the Church of Big Data. Just as divine authority was legitimised by religious mythologies, and human authority was legitimised … [Read more...]
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