Question: Why is the "Data is the new Oil" metaphor so popular? By now everyone must know that "Oil" is a major contributor to climate change and rapidly being replaced by renewable energies?pic.twitter.com/VBbFjPWSKg
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Instead of going to all the trouble of extracting and processing oil (data-mining), find ways of meeting your needs (providing features and UX) that are lower-impact. Hmm, there's a decentralization / solar panels analogy here too. Do smaller amounts of work across more nodes.
‘The grid’ (or ‘cloud’) is the (ideally) public commons which all individuals can contribute to and consume as required.
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