[jakeywankenobi]

> My point is, people's minds aren't caught up to the scale of data, and I don't think there is a technology solution for it.

I totally agree with the general thrust of this argument. I'd like to hear more about use cases for this kind of personally-owned, aggregated data store. Once this article started talking about searching over, say, notes and highlights from articles and blog posts, I started to see specific use cases that seem totally compelling. However, it's not clear to me how this part of the data ownership conversation matches up with the seemingly more principles-driven data ownership conversation.

Theoretically there's nothing stopping you from building some of these more specific implementations (which the author has done--btw those projects looks really cool).