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There have been plenty of opinion pieces about whether data is the new oil The metaphor first gained popularity following the publication of this article in The Economist, but has been repeated many times, such as in this piece in Hackernoon. A number of critiques of the idea have appeared too, such as this piece in Wired, Ben Tarnoff's article Big data for the people: it's time to take it back from our tech overlords, and this piece that proposes an alternative metaphor: What if our personal data is less the ‘new oil’ and more like uranium? On data metaphors in general, see this article from Anna Lauren Hoffmann and Luke Stark, Data is the new what? Popular Metaphors & Professional Ethics in Emerging Data Culture , and whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Regardless of how we judge the comparison, one question that these debates might cause us to ask is, “if data is the new oil, then what is it fuelling?” One obvious answer is “a surveillance capitalist nightmare,” but a less p

There have been plenty of opinion pieces about whether data is the new oil The metaphor first gained popularity following the publication of this article in The Economist, but has been repeated many times, such as in this piece in Hackernoon. A number of critiques of the idea have appeared too, such as this piece in Wired , Ben Tarnoff's article Big data for the people: it's time to take it back from our tech overlords , and this piece that proposes an alternative metaphor: What if our personal data is less the ‘new oil’ and more like uranium? On data metaphors in general, see this article fro

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