Dataism

Dataism is a popular term in the era of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data. It was originally coined by New York Times journalist: David Brooks and further popularized by historian Yuval Harari. In the context of Digital Publishing Workflow, dataism can be summarized into the following interesting social-technical properties:

1. Data services are digital assets that can be used to govern the rights and functionalities of other data services.
2. Data services can be used to reflect and execute incentive mechanisms that keeps data services evolve across certain social networks.
3. Data services may contain data content that can be used to present information content to people who have no prior knowledge about data services.

The advancements made in data services as an industry, propelled the notion of dataism to a point where data itself became a general form and usually the most reliable form of evidence that indicates asset allocation and ownership. This revelation profoundly changes the way both human and societies can engage with the world through newly revealed data services.