How Sheer Tonnage Rendered Information Unfree

are propagating at a rate that exceeds Moore’s Law." (Consider also that we're approaching the end of Moore's Law.)

With the advent of the Internet of Things, data is becoming "an effect of just living," which means an additional accelerant on our need to store and manage data.

It seems that the apparent cheapness of information was only a temporary effect of the beginning of the Internet age. As we transferred analogue media produced through labor intensive processes to the web, we discovered that it was many times larger than we needed it to be, and also many times cheaper to get data to end users. Now that the machines themselves are throwing off so much data, and all of us are producing many times what we once did, information once again has a cost.

h/t Hanna Waters

business models, media, big data, internet of things

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