In this flash talk from our 2017 Future Assembly conference, John Deighton, Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explores an emerging industrial resource and raw material — data. In a world where the Internet is growing at ~20% a year, Deighton asks who will be the winners and losers of this new industrial revolution.
“Data may be to the 21st century economy what oil was to the 20th a hugely valuable asset essential to economic life.” – Larry Summers