Can you imagine if companies started to pay their customers for certain types of data. That is, data that was automatically collected on...say, product use/behavior, the individuals history or networks (sleeping, eating, activity patterns, etc..), and then customer could use that information to 'sell' to a company.
You could essentially turn automated data collection into a currency that is viable to use in the market place. This could have potential positive uses for individuals that currently have no ability/aspirations to make money (e.g. the homeless alcoholic could sell his data to the government in exchange for money which the homeless person could use for booze or shelter...likely booze)
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