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In a world rapidly accelerating toward automation and measurement, data is a commodity. Filtered, labeled, and processed data is the most valuable asset. Thus, information processing is the most important force of our reality. It’s critical that this power is decentralized.

Kiran Cherukuri • Internet Cities & The Social Uniswap

(Herbert Simon said it best: “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”)

John Brockman • This Will Make You Smarter: 150 New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (Edge Question Series)

clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in

Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

Technology for producing and distributing information is useless without some way to locate, filter, organize and summarize it. A new profession of “information managers” will have to combine the skills of computer scientists, librarians, publishers and database experts to help us discover and manage information. These human agents will work with

Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity

The world is waking up to the reality that the platforms of today have become too powerful and value extractive. The platforms of tomorrow will find it more difficult to build sustainable businesses through data monopolisation that keeps users locked in. They will likely be more open and continue to work together with, not against their users.

Patrick Mayr • User Owned Platforms

Taming The Big Data Tidal Wave: Finding Opportunities in Huge Data Streams with Advanced Analytics (Wiley and SAS Business Series)

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Drowning in data and hooked on clips of cats doing daft things with dustbin lids, we inhabit a highly manipulated, monetised minefield in which our every move is monitored, stored and sold on for profit.28

Carolyn Steel • Sitopia

As the search engines have been notoriously blamed for showing content that maximizes advertising revenue and tracking user’s search results for more personalized ads, the paradigm shift to human content curation grows much stronger.

Tuan (Alan) Nguyen • How The Curator Economy Shapes Today’s Products

Because there’s an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.