Data is the new oil.
@saturno (Slightly more seriously, have you read Mackenzie Wark's A Hacker Manifesto? It's... dense -- and also communist, if that matters one way or another -- but it argues that control of vectors of information is, like, a coherent class-or-whatever.)
@gaditb interesting! I will have a look. I didn't hear of it before.
@saturno *invades Iraq for their data*