The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Data is the new oil. It's valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas, plastic, chemicals, etc to create a valuable entity that drives profitable activity; so must data be broken down, analyzed for it to have value.
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists.
——兴中会