ABSTRACT
In his widely read book Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari predicts the radical transformation of human society by digital technology (2016). Harari explores ‘dataism’ or ‘datafication’, a viewpoint that suggests data-flows are the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Dataism attaches equal or possibly even higher value to conclusions gained from data-flow than from human experience, since it is free from bias and offers advanced opportunities for data analysis. Dataism might even be categorised as a ‘new religion’, which considers the world, indeed the universe as simply a cosmic data-processing system.
