to the vector belong the spoils

And now there’s what [Venkatesh Rao] called the cryptobourgeoisie. There’s effectively an information advantage that young people can have that potentially allows them to capture some of the value that the Boomers have.

In the twenty-first century, however, data will eclipse both land and machinery as the most important asset, and politics will be a struggle to control the flow of data. If data becomes concentrated in too few hands, humankind will split into different species. The race to obtain the data is already on, headed by data giants such as Google, Faceboo

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