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A View Of The Future Of Our Data

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Matt Prewitt is President of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is a lawyer, writer and technologist focused on new institutions for power sharing and collective intelligence. Matt Prewitt is President of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is a lawyer, writer and technologist focused on new institutions for power sharing and collective intelligence. Spend time with people interested in data policy, and you will hear wild, florid language. Terms like “self-sovereignty,” “data colonialism” and “surveillance capitalism” share sentences with comparisons of data transactions to organ sales. These colorful metaphors beg for your attention, contrasting startlingly with the insipid transmissions of ones and zeroes to which they refer. Much of this talk is confused and misled, but it is not overheated. Language is simply sputtering before the vastness of the issue. This happens to technical people regularly. In the 1990s, those who really understood the internet could not voice their predictions without

A View Of The Future Of Our Data Welcome to the era of data coalitions. Julien Gachadoat for Noema Magazine Credits Matt Prewitt is the president of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is a former antitrust lawyer, writer and technology strategist, whose writing focuses on the politics of technology. Credits Matt Prewitt is the president of RadicalxChange Foundation. He is a former antitrust lawyer, writer and technology strategist, whose writing focuses on the politics of technology. Spend time with people interested in data policy, and you will hear wild, florid language. Terms like “self-sovereig

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