The Fight for Ownership of Your Personal Data is about to Begin

Our adversaries are no longer international despots or dictators, they are multi-national companies who exploit every byte of data we produce to achieve unfathomable riches for themselves. Those who possess intelligence on our psyches revealing things we don’t even know about ourselves.

We must do better individually and collectively and this means delaying instantaneous gratification, which is incredibly difficult. It’s about achieving in a world of unfathomable distractions with innumerable competing distractions. There is a reason Steve Jobs refused to allow his children the use of technology he helped revolutionized during large parts of the day.

The onus rests on our shoulder to invent a more evenly distributed future. That means tackling big problems now. Big problems are the things which achieve the largest collective benefit. Big problems are things that make the future a better place to live than the present. That precludes working on another photo sharing app or social network. We must refuse to reinvent the wheel in favor of striving for greatness. That means taking a long time to solve incredibly complex and difficult problems. It’s sacrifice and perseverance in a world that perpetually trends towards giving up at the first sign of trouble.‘Google it’ has supplanted never give up and it is to the…