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  1. Mar 2021
    1. But data is also very different than oil, or any other resource. That’s because it has genuinely radical potential. It’s not just a source of profit—it’s also, possibly, a mechanism for moving beyond profit as the organizing principle of our economic life.

      Data is very important and It could also be used for medical research and making life better for us overall. With our data they can find our interests and a lot about ourselves that we may not even know about .

    2. Measuring data’s value can be tricky. Fortunately, scholars are developing tools for it. And politics can help: in the past, political necessity has motivated the creation of new economic measurement

      Isn’t data being constantly created and it is increasing rapidly. So new economic measurements would have to be constantly created as well .