What I learned: Data sort of went into a new era with Claude Shannon's work in Boolean math and data compression and cryptography which was near concurrent with birth of transistors and the advent of electronic and magnetic representation of data signals in and around the computer. Of course there was a sidestep (and homage to Hollerith and Jacquard) with punch cards - which carried the anti-conformist message of the time: Don't bend fold or mutilate me.
Next up were databases that organized data in an increasingly efficient way. Then relational databases which had such use in business, and SPSS, which had use in statistics, sociology and academia.
All along the way, data becoming more of a commodity - and a series of professions building up around its evolution as a commodity. Until the advent of big data - that being unstructured data on the main - data coming from outside of the organization - data being created by consumers as they do their activity.
Until you have today's world, with data as a business - in the cases of companies like Google and Facebook, being the total basis of their business -- and you have concerns about data privacy. - Jack Vaughan
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