Episode
Caleb Scharf on The Ascent of Information: Life in The Human Dataome
COMPLEXITY · Aug 19, 2022 · 1 h 23 min
Chances are you’re listening to this on an advanced computer that fits in your pocket, but is really just one tentacle tip of a giant, planet-spanning architecture for the gathering and processing of data. A common sentiment among the smartphone-enabled human population is that we not only don’t own our data, but our data owns us — or, at least, the pressure of responsibility to keep providing…