September 2021
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 45m
English

The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.
—THE ECONOMIST, MAY 6, 20171
In 2006, Clive Humbly, UK mathematician and architect of the Tesco Clubcard, made the now notorious statement, “data is the new oil,” comparing the nature of raw, unrefined data to oil. A May 2017 article in The Economist expounded on the idea. The author noted that new commodities lead to lucrative, fast-growing economies that eventually draw the attention of antitrust regulators worried about who can control their flow. The article compared oil, the new commodity a century ago, to data, the ...
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