The Rise Of Dataism

The Beginning

Long ago, humans were just another animal species on Earth. But from the accidental invention of fire, we started building up our world on Earth. Everyone will say that human greed is very much dangerous. Even though we could simply say so, that is how we have been developed into the most developed species in the world. Our increase in development gave way to the increase in our greed. And thus, in this 21st Century, we are facing a new ideology and as you know by reading the title of this article, that powerful and fastly developing ideology is Dataism.

Dataism is the emergence of significant big data. It is the emergence of the ideology or a particular mindset which deals with vital information or big data. In simple words, it is the free flow of data. And according to the latest reports and analysis, this data will decide our nearest future.

The term Dataism first appeared through the article ‘The Philosophy of Data’ written by David Brooks in the New York Times in 2013. In this short article, Brooks says about his viewpoints on the rise of Dataism, which he states as a new philosophy. He thinks that it could even predict the future by utilizing the wide range of data they have collected and stored in the vast internet servers.

Data helps to make our life easier. It could give us the necessary advice in almost all types of our daily activities. For example, we are more likely to follow Google Maps, when we are on a trip to an unknown place. It accesses your location, your details so that it could give you advice and could show the best shortcuts and even it could avoid several accidents because it has a vast amount of data in its servers and could use it wisely. So, in that case, Dataism is a great advantage.

Dataism gives value for every bit of data or information. All data is invaluable. Dataists declare they aim to make their ideology worldwide. By adding more and more networks, it could develop an extreme power. Dataists declare to give all the authority to Dataism so that it could manage and satisfy all of us.

The New World of Algorithms

Dataism sees all the organic species as biochemical algorithms. In the language of Dataism, all the emotions and thoughts of organic species are considered as the result of the working of their biochemical algorithms. It doesn’t consider us as an individual and instead, it sees us as different biochemical algorithms. Through such a viewpoint, our significance as individuals will give way to just biochemical algorithms.

Dataism aims to create highly developed and efficient electronic or artificial algorithms to outperform our biochemical algorithms. Through the emergence of Dataism, we never find ourselves in an important role in the world and instead consider ourselves as just algorithms. The world becomes the interface between algorithms. This situation may lead to blowing off humanism and its side wings.

The liberal drama is going to be over, because of the new challenges created by the rising philosophies or ideologies such as Dataism and techno-humanism. Dataism means the free flow of data and techno-humanism means the intervention of technology in human decisions.

Here, we are going to discuss Dataism. The liberal story will surely lose its prominence when the new world of algorithms takes over the world. Everyone will slowly start to trust AI for everything and will surely depend on it. Your data will be drained completely to the internet service providers and they may even use it for better advertisements and the public election on a country. Even now Google uses your data and your personal information to put advertisements when you open a webpage on a website.

In the article, ‘The Future of Dataism’, Yuval Noah Harari says that according to Dataists, the output of Dataism will be a more efficient and a single data processing system, which will be known as IoT or the Internet-of-all-things. According to him, Dataism also began as a neutral-scientific theory, and later developed as a religion. He also claims that the data flow is the ultimate value of this religion. He also predicts that humans may have been able to merge into that data flow.

When the AI knows us more than we know ourselves, what will happen then? We will start giving AI the authority in our lives and will never try to oppose it. Gradually, it accesses everything we know and everything we have on our PC. Slowly, it will rise as an ultimate power and we will be just people, who could move according to its willing.

Even our biological data is going to be in the hands of AI. Then it could utilize it in both ways- to destroy or to sustain a peaceful society. If a pandemic is released and if, with the help of AI, we can spot the person’s complete details, with whom the pandemic has been started, then it is a boon. And we could trace the pathway of that particular individual which may help us to know what is the reason or from where does this pandemic had started its journey. This could result in a swift investigation and could help the development of medical science to develop a proper vaccine for the disastrous epidemic. The AI could even predict the exact medicine for the epidemic through its analysis of the vast number of people’s biological data, which includes their DNA codes. The covid pandemic, which we face today, continues its catastrophic journey around the world. Billions of people had died. The virus started spreading from Wuhan, China from approximately at the end of 2019. But it had spread all over the world through China. Our medical science is not as pacy as we think. But here AI could perform the wonderful task of finding the vaccine by analyzing various medical substances and various DNA codes. It could even play the effects on the DNA codes by analyzing the medicine it had found. Remember that we only developed a vaccine much later.

The world becomes the battle between biochemical algorithms and super-intelligent electronic algorithms. Surely, the super-intelligent electronic algorithms will take over the biochemical algorithms. The authority of the AI as a dominant power has both pros and cons. The super-intelligent algorithms have their mind to decide whether a deed is right or wrong. The logical thinking in AI can cause many disastrous effects in human society. If the algorithm hates someone, then it could erase all the bits of information about him, and thereby it could destroy his peaceful life. There is no way for him to survive in the data age without the help and assistance of super-intelligent algorithms.

The Data Revolution

The 21st Century has arrived with lots of new ideas and new technologies which are still in progress. Dataism, one of the most famous ideas has arrived in this century. The data creates a way to a great revolution. This revolution is not related to high human intervention. Here, in this spectacular drama, we are just sub-actors who all are only meant for the beginning scene. After that, we have nothing to stay on the stage as the rest of the part is given to the AI. Yes, of course, this drama stars the AI than humans. We created Artificial Intelligence and we are ready to give up our dominance to AI by trusting them completely. We never try to understand any of the consequences.

Data is invaluable. In the realm of advertising and present politics, this big data can be utilized for targeting a people of a country and thereby securing more votes. This was proven by the Cambridge Analytica outrage, in which it is accepted that Donald Trump and the planners of Brexit utilized clients’ Facebook information to make mental profiles that empowered them to control the majority.

The data revolution changes everything. In the present world, we don’t have any privacy. Anyone with a bit of internet knowledge could easily hack our information and could sell in the darknet. We believe that we are secured with just having an antivirus but it does not help much. By making dataism a reality we may have a better life without any assurance.