Increasingly, and more than ever before, life is being measured in numbers. Countries measure their economies on the basis of the GDP calculated, while students are graded right from their initial steps. Schools too, get judged on the basis of scores achieved by its students, while universities are ranked as per their quantifiable placement records. Most humans are now under the radar of companies, through the act of data warehousing. This entails the stockpiling of enormous quantities of data, brought in together from all digital data points. Most of the industries today, would come to a standstill, without the basis of this enormous data set.

Source:https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2019/02/23/life-and-society-are-increasingly-governed-by-numbers

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