It was fun looking at the world as a huge conspiracy theory, but then I realized: There’s no such thing as hidden knowledge.
—just had more knowledge of its secrets. They have access to more information, I’d think. They know what the companies they run and invest in are working on, they can see reports, they can buy raw data and hire teams of consultants to synthesize it into recommendations. But it turns out that the books they read tend to be the same books everyone else reads. And their hobbies are normal rich-people hobbies.
In fact, it feels to me as if a large portion of humanity has entered the age of no secrets. Regular people do “open source intelligence,” trawling YouTube footage of war zones, triangulating with, comparing notes on Reddit to define exactly what happened. If you’re meeting someone for coffee and you search for their name, you’ll slip right into their LinkedIn or their property records, and you’ll have to remember not to bring up the price of their house when you sit down.
But does life in a networked panopticon have to be grim? I subscribe to a wonderful mailing list called Data Is Plural, which regularly sends out new sources of health outcomes, voting records, bird sightings, and so forth. It’s the only newsletter I open immediately. To release a data set is just so optimistic an act. Have you seen Microsoft’s Planetary? They have the whole world in there, more maps than you thought possible. Tree cover. Soil type. You can go to Wikidata.
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