Big tech wants to re-write history by calling this the age of information, because these fucks make money off data. Data is important, but it's not revolutionary, our senses and our brains collect and interpret more data than any computer in existence. In fact all that data is useless unless there's someone to make sense of it and adapt to it. ALL software, all data just serves as a means to visualize something, a way to help you make decisions, the problem with data is that it's dependent on sensors, sensors that may or may not be measuring what you are trying to visualize. If you make decisions based on flawed or bad data, you will get flawed and or bad outcomes. Case in point, the models used to predict the spread and deadliness of covid. Total ass juice model, with total ass juice data generated as a result. Data is overvalued, and it's only a matter of time before the market corrects this distortion.