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In software? What data would it run on? Software doesn't do anything without data.

I suppose you could have something like the PC revolution, where the industry was still based around manipulating data, but the data lives on your personal property. But that ship has sailed: personal computers have been available for 35 years, so pretty much all applications that rely on one person's data being manipulated in isolation by themselves have already been discovered. The interesting work now is when you collect patterns of data among many users, and that requires that many users be willing to give you their data.



In software? What data would it run on? Software doesn't do anything without data.

You say it like our personal information is the only data in town.

Of course, any app needs data, but it can be anything.




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