data quotes

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch – which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.