Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
One phrase has stuck since the 2010s: data is “the oil of the 21st century.” The idea is simple. Once refined by algorithms, data becomes the engine of growth and of global power.
But oil is a resource that runs out, and data is not. It can be copied endlessly, and it grows more valuable each time it is matched against other information. Here is why it has redrawn the world economy.
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- 2Predicting our behavior before we do
- 3Why these giants are almost impossible to challenge
- 4Europe strikes back with the GDPR
- 5Data as a question of sovereignty
Open-book quiz9 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary12 terms explained in a tap.
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