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We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.

~Douglas Rushkoff

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Everyone knows, or should know, that everything we type on our computers or say into our cell phones is being disseminated throughout the datasphere. And most of it is recorded and parsed by big data servers. Why do you think Gmail and Facebook are free? You think they're corporate gifts? We pay with our data.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Being Big Cell Cell Phones Computers Corporate Data Everyone Everything Facebook Free Gifts Know Knows Most Our Pay Phones Recorded Say Should Think Throughout Type Why You

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No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to terms with the living process through which people choose products or candidates; they are looking at what people just bought or thought, and making calculations based on that after-the-fact data.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Based Bought Calculations Candidates Choose Come Data Disposal How Just Living Looking Making Marketers Matter Never People Process Products Technologies Terms Thought Through Which

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Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Call Card Chances Conducting Creates Credit Credit Card Data Digital Enough Everything Exists Making Phone Phone Call Realm Sending Someone Soon Surfing Trail Transaction Using Web Will Yes E-Mail

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The cloud is still really just a bunch of servers, owned by someone or something, whose decisions and competence must be trusted. This applies to everything from Google Docs to Gmail: Putting our data out there really means putting it 'out there.'

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Bunch Cloud Competence Data Decisions Everything Google Just Means Must Our Out Owned Putting Really Someone Something Still Trusted Whose

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Removed from 'Gmail' doesn't necessarily mean removed from all Google servers. In fact, your old emails are the data set from which Google models our behaviors - the real product it is offering its advertisers.

~Douglas Rushkoff

Topics: Advertiser Behaviors Data Emails Fact Google In Fact Mean Models Necessarily Offering Old Our Product Real Set Which Your

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Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

~Drew Houston

Topics: Around Car Connects Data Devices Fabric Getting Means More Needs Smarter Spread Television Your

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Basically, if you want to have a computer system that could pass the Turing test, it as a machine is going to have to be able to self-reference and use its own experience and the sense data that it's taking in to basically create its own understanding of the world and use that as a reference point for all new sense data that's coming in to it.

~Duncan Jones

Topics: Able Basically Coming Computer Could Create Data Experience Going Machine New Own Pass Point Reference Sense System Taking Test Understanding Use Want World You

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I have the privilege of being the vice chair of the World Economic Forum's real estate council. In that role, I review a lot of economic data and original research from around the world.

~Dylan Taylor

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