Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It?

Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It?

  • March 7, 2018
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Your Data Is Crucial to a Robotic Age. Shouldn’t You Be Paid for It?

The idea has been around for a bit. Jaron Lanier, the tech philosopher and virtual-reality pioneer who now works for Microsoft Research, proposed it in his 2013 book, “Who Owns the Future?,” as a needed corrective to an online economy mostly financed by advertisers’ covert manipulation of users’ consumer choices.

Source: nytimes.com

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