Datism (data-ism) is a concept according to which big data and algorithms for processing this data are the highest value.
History
This term was first used by David Brooks in 2013 in The New York Times [1] to describe the thinking or philosophy created by the new meaning of big data: “If you asked me to describe the bottom-up philosophy of the day, I would say that it is data- ism. "
In 2016, in his book Homo Deus , the sociologist Yuval Noah Harari expanded the term by calling datism an ideology or even a new form of religion in which the “information stream” is “the highest value”.
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- ↑ Brooks, David . Opinion | The Philosophy of Data , The New York Times (February 4, 2013). Date accessed August 9, 2019.