Do not finish your data

By Fr George Adimike

It is beyond controversy that Internet data can be saving or savaging, running or ruining lives. The ramifications of the digital economy discriminate between sheer producers and chronic consumers. Through its charm, the digital economy funds each of the divides’ dispositions. While many leverage the Internet data to thrive and flourish as producers of values, others barter their greatest resources for pleasure, comfort and immediate satisfaction from the social media.

In so doing, they lose focus in the digital village square and behave like the goat that forgot its brain in the forest while on a stealing spree in the farmer’s house. In consequence, it got entrapped while its partner-in-crime, the tortoise, ran to its heels. Such persons become victims who spend their data without letting it work for them. Obviously, on account of the Internet (social media), some young people are excised from the community, left vulnerable and ruined. They, in turn, inflict society with a myriad of social maladies, compounding the already precarious situation.

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Yet, since data is the new oil, those who invest well will reap the digital dividend. Unfortunately, while tech giants reap cool dollars in rewards from our attention capital, many do not realize that their ultimate data is being spent. Thus these tech companies steal our primary resource. Easily, people romanticize and glamorize their capacity to consume and indeed, raise consumer-consciousness to measure of class.

Whoever cannot consume does not belong, thereby erecting a status symbolism on one’s ability to consume what tech giants offer us, taking no notice of the consequences. As man’s appreciation for humanity wanes, and on the threshold of AI (Artificial Intelligence), which promises to be the proximate digital frontier, consumption as a criterion of value has spent its days. One’s capacity to break even has reached a new level of depth in importance.

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