There is something odd about thinking of people as data. After all, each individual human being is a vast entity, and essentially infinite vessel of complexity and possibility.<\/p>\n
But for purposes of the modern on-line economy, people are data records. We are born in this year, and die in that one. We have preferred shopping habits, viewing preferences, favorite places to vacation.<\/p>\n
Somewhere in a computer database, we are each reduced to a neat set of categories and a list of weights and values. From the perspectives of Amazon, Facebook, Google and their ilk, this is who we are.<\/p>\n
Yet in our hearts we know better. For we are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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