“To get a feel for how cheap data are, price a 1 terabyte hard-drive. Don’t even have to shop, just BB or Tarjee or wallyworld. CHEAP!”
To add to your statement I would go even farther and this is in practice now with Google, Amazon and other major data brokers and what I call major data miners. All these outfits are using massive DB’s to fire systems at them to create smart buying systems. These are often called AI systems but they are in fact data crunchers to see how an individual shops. The goal is to see how you shop and make the choice before you do. Every click, purchase or search is put in to these DB’s and used for this purpose.
Its scary tech and worse when you think of it on the human scale and what governments would do with it.
“...The goal is to see how you shop and make the choice before you do. Every click, purchase or search is put in to these DB’s and used for this purpose.
Its scary tech and worse when you think of it on the human scale and what governments would do with it.”
This anecdote is going to add to the subtlety of the robot overlords process, but...
The day after a telephone call with a buddy where several random topics were discussed, popup ads on news sites contained ads targeted toward some of the topics discussed the day before....
‘Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean you aren’t following someone.....’ Dennis Haysbert, “The UNIT”?
Still get the heebeejeebees over that one..
KYPD