In the Book Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari, he talks about a term called Dataism.
Dataism is a term that has been used to describe the mindset or philosophy created by the emerging significance of big data. It was first used by David Brooks in The New York Times in 2013. In art, the term was used by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi to refer to an artist movement that uses data as its primary source of inspiration.
In the book Yuval calls it an emerging ideology or even a new form of religion, in which “information flow” is the “supreme value”.
Dataism operates under the belief that the universe is connected by the flow of data and that the value of anything, human or otherwise, can be determined by its ability to process data. Dataism negates the core values of humanism, valuing raw data over human experience. Rather than lifting humanity over all other beings, Dataism connects all animals and breaks down the barrier between organic and inorganic entities!
By focusing solely on statistical information, Dataists believe they can connect everything from music to economics using data patterns, creating a common language that everyone can relate to.
As far as Dataism is concerned, with the amount of data available, Humans are in no position to compute or analyze the data and that job must be left in the electronic hand and brains of devices with higher computing power while our work is only relegated to being data entry operators!
The simplest brief according to Yuval is that we will soon be in a position where big data algorithms will know people better than they know themselves. A website such as Amazon will track data relating to your purchasing habits – the sorts of things you buy, search, wish list, or even talk about with friends online – and use these to curate your recommended list to you with almost perfect precision!
In fact this has already happened in scales which an average human cannot even fathom! For a machine which is either your phone or your search engine, all you are is a set of data point! Like in the latest Mission Impossible movie (though even an AI cannot predict what Tom Cruise would do!), every decision you make, every answer you give; the AI gets to know more and more about you!
The only saving grace is probably the improbability or unpredictable behavior of the human mind! Not everyone is a straight shooter like birthday celebrity Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore!
Now go for screensaver mode of your body ie Sleep!
Good Night!
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