In the 1960s Scientists discovered that a bacteria named Vibrio Fischeri, would gain greater and greater luminescence as the population increased, today this is called quorum-sensing. The bacteria would communicate with each other via light to find out the size of the population.
Everything relies on the constant mass and processing of data. This processing is called communication and is essential for all life. I find peoples general perception of data very odd, I suspect this is mainly due to the connotations between data and social media. It’s there, it’s everywhere. Data is behind everything you can and can’t see, the material and immaterial of your everyday objects, they all have a link. A network of millions, billions, trillions of material objects, animals, insects, organisms, bacterias and a plethora of other biomatter all with a link to each other.
Humans are constantly being stimulated by data, the light from the display flooding your retina, the click of a key on your keyboard, the smell of your toast burning triggering a signal in your brain telling you to probably go and assess the situation. All this data can be placed in the context of a feedback-loop, in fact, it could be said all data could be placed in this context. Aren’t we as humans nothing more than data synthesising machines? Bones, ligaments, muscles, flesh are a part of a wider more important system of sensors that are computed and outputted and ultimately build our interactions and meaning socially, emotionally, psychologically and physiologically. Data is more than a prime Human revelation but instead the invisible communication to life. Data is incredibly more intricate than of the conventional firing of your smartphone to Facebook or Twitter but of a more organic origin. It is nature, biology, the human and the robot all inset with properties. Inset with data.
Oil and Coal a fuel of the past. Many countries and people over years and years would do anything to get to oil and coal, while the real fuel was all around them. Data, the social fuel.
