In the information age, everything can become data. At this stage, data is wealth, and the amount of wealth owned by different groups of people will become more unequal.
Human society has always developed in the head mode, not only for humans, but also for all animals. At different periods, resources are concentrated in different areas, one point is focused on making breakthroughs, and then the whole area is promoted. This is the head mode. The root of the
head model is limited resources, which results in a pattern of limited resources. Externally, it is an imbalance of natural structure, and internally, it is the 28th law that restricts the development of human society. It can be said that it is the head model that exacerbates the imbalance in resource allocation caused by the excessive concentration of high-quality resources, which in turn makes humans rely more on the head model. In the era of
data, some seemingly impossible ideas have become possible.
For example, before the advent of digital currency, it is theoretically possible to trace the flow of each banknote, but due to the complexity of the circulation link, the cost of implementation is too high, making it unrealistic. After using digital currency, it is possible to trace the currency's flow, trajectory, and even type to control the use range of currency, which is the result of technological development. The gold content of data is increasing rapidly, and whoever has the data has the right to speak.
In the information age, many data that cannot be used in the physical age have gradually become resources and wealth. In the information age, whoever has the data will have wealth. At this stage, another type of inequality is increasing, and that is data inequality. An obvious example of
is that the Internet app software you use may know yourself better at a certain point. Through your frequency of use and content, you can understand your preferences and income, so as to predict your next use of this app. Time and content. It can be said that the more life events a person handles in an app, the more data the app can obtain about that person. Slowly, the app will draw a living portrait. Not only the person's appearance (obtained from the face recognition function), but also the person's height and weight (obtained from the size of the clothes purchased), occupational income (obtained from the grade of the goods purchased), and even if you can go deep into yourself, you cannot realize it To the heart (obtained from some unconscious browsing), uses software to generate a three-dimensional, multi-level and all-round user portrait. Using real-time updated user portraits, the platform can predict and accurately push marketing information to maximize profits. These data of
and are all controlled by the platform. Behind it are tens of millions of servers, storage-supported databases, middleware, and applications, which cost huge amounts of money to build and continue to invest heavily in operating data centers, and behind all this is capital. power. The
data is gathered into these huge institutions controlled by capital through platform software, creating an invisible wall whose height is not personally climbable. A pair of eyes inside the wall stared at the behavior of everyone outside the wall, and they lost no time to hunt for data.
This is the data inequality in the information age, which is essentially a new manifestation of the original inequality. In the information age, the manifestation and transformation of capital are faster, and this inequality has become more disparity and more difficult to break through.
Data inequality will inevitably lead to resource imbalances, resulting in some new phenomena. One part is invisible and intangible, and has not yet been realized, but the other part has shown its harm, such as our most common big data.
Fortunately, the regulators have realized this new trend and introduced some chaos that restrains capital in the era of big data.
On November 10, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued the "Guidelines for Anti-Monopoly in the Field of Platform Economy (Draft for Solicitation of Comments)", which pointed to the fact that in recent years, the platform required merchants to "choose one of the two" and "skill" consumers with big data Other Internet platform companies are chaotic, and platform companies use rules, algorithms, technology, traffic distribution and other behaviors that refuse to conduct transactions without justifiable reasons, etc., will also be deemed as "monopolistic behavior." The wanton chaos of these capitals hindered the orderly development of the Internet.
In the information age, more inequality is manifested in data. At this time, individuals can no longer use knowledge and experience to compete with the capital PK that has mastered data resources. They can only rely on the regulatory authorities to formulate both beneficial to the head model innovation and protection Individual policies guide the overall healthy development.
