Data is not the future

Data is not the future—it's the past.

I mean that literally.

Everywhere you look there is talk about how data is the future, data will be the currency of the future, and data is the new oil.

And in the midst of it, we've lost sight of what data actually is and what it isn't.

Data is not an oracle.

Data is a record of the past. How many cities there are in my…