[yay_cloud2]

This is the type of thing that I imagine the "data suckers" (Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon) are able to do regularly with the complex data that they have and the advanced tools that they have at their disposal.

I can't see yet to what end that ability would be trained, but I consider that ability to be akin to the state's ability to see into my backyard from space: I know they can do it and it doesn't harm me immediately that they can, but there's something net negative about the power/ability imbalance that makes me feel uncomfortable. Of course nobody is going to use that awesome power on someone as inconsequential as me, but...

[beautifulfreak]

I wonder if the "data suckers" have any intention of creating a history of the world, in which no author imposes an interpretation of events. Besides remembering all the data, these companies have tools to parse the data and render it understandable, without imposing a meaning. Call it objective history. That would be valuable.