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We need to think more about mining our own output to extract patterns that turn our raw personal data stream into predictive, actionable information.

Curiosity bred competence.

everyone’s preferences, and feed all this data into a “single mind”—a giant economic optimization algorithm that would run continuously to “work out the implications”? Because, Hayek explained, that algorithm would never get all the data it actually needed; it could never “secure the best use of resources known to any of the members of society, for

he posted on the Stanford site in 1995, he talked about “a new project” to generate personalized movie ratings. “The way it works is as follows,” he wrote. “You rate the movies you have seen. Then the system finds other users with similar tastes to extrapolate how much you like other movies.”

relatively inexpensive (as with commodity servers). You

Proliferation is catalyzed by two forces: demand and the resulting cost decreases, each of which drives technology to become even better and cheaper.

The internet data itself—cleaned, indexed, and with a taxonomy for important terms—is the second primary offering.