Data Is (NOT!) the New Oil
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Comparing data with oil is done, but it can lock up our thinking, imagination, and power to act. Data powers the new economy in the way that oil powers the traditional economy. But the analogy between data and oil breaks down right after that. Oil and data as raw materials have very different economic characteristics. […]