the data-fication of society revolutionizes everything and our next guest says this ability to manipulate the info is a big deal, a big f g words in joe biden s words. should we be stoked or scared? with us now is data editor of the economist kenneth cuieka. let s start there. it says the book title is it will transform but this is transformed how we lived, hasn t it? that s true. we have seen data in society and going on for centuries in some ways but the difference is that we have a lot of data and things to do and we have a lot of data we couldn t do with just a little bit and at the outset of this period. and the same way as when the worldwide web came around in