Letter to the Editor: Data is the new oil but doesn’t help humanity

Data is the new oil bringing great benefits for digital media corporations. But how does this advance the cause of humanity?

There is derelict cynicism in commercial and socio-economic models where nuclear energy or fossil fuels are required in very large amounts for the huge numbers of data farms to store what we may consider rubbish as data — ours, or what is offered to draw our interest, and our payments.