People are Data

Television turned people into Consumers - and the Computer has turned them into Data.

We have become used to the first transformation, and it now seems natural. But the second one, the transformation into Data - has happened under the hood with few becoming aware of it. The first was alarming, but the second is even more alarming.

This where some knowledge of the latest trends in software development become valuable. Trends that most people are not aware of.

These trends are often lumped together, and referred to as Artificial Intelligence (AI) or as Machine Learning (ML) or as Big Data. Whatever they are called, they are One Big Thing. And they all treat people as Data, and put them in Databases. And then analyze this Data, in order to make it useful (to make it profitable). People are used to make money - but in a new way.

The people who know how to do this, are as rich as the Robber Barons of a century ago. As the rest of the population struggles to survive.