{"id":3564,"date":"2022-01-20T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2021-12-16T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T12:54:15","slug":"data-has-always-been-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2022\/01\/data-has-always-been-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Data has always been Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lest we forget, we have always had more data than we could process. For some reason, we are now recording it with magnetism.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just read yet another article telling me that &#8220;data is everywhere.&#8221; Then there are the usual numbers of peta-peta-something-or-other bytes of data every second or so. Cries follow of, &#8220;how are we going to use all this data?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eventually, the magazine article tells me to hire the writer who just happens to sell data processing this and that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Data has always been everywhere. Leonardo Di Vinci had more data than he could process. He just didn&#8217;t have a machine that stored data using magnetism in one way or another. Now we do. Now these machines costs little compared to a rich person&#8217;s income (like me and like mine).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poor of the world don&#8217;t seem to have data everywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Funny how that works. Rich people create technologies that show what the rich people are lacking so the rich people can spend their riches on what only they lack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Lest we forget, we have always had more data than we could process. For some reason, we are now recording it with magnetism. I just read yet another article telling me that &#8220;data is everywhere.&#8221; Then there are the usual numbers of peta-peta-something-or-other bytes of data every second or so. Cries follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,17,374,367,98,109],"tags":[200,139,372,366,213,223],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-culture","category-data-science","category-history","category-scale","category-science","tag-computing","tag-culture","tag-data-science","tag-history","tag-scale","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3565,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/3565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}