The massive creation of data that appeared during the last decade, generates innumerable new opportunities and new ways to create wealth, thus impacting the way society and the economy work. This in turn modifies radically the way social interactions and political order used to be up to the beginning of the twenty-first century. In my new book I talk about social classes and political order in the age of data.

We are familiar with the idea that technology is neutral, and that its impact depends only on how it is used. This traditional view has, however, become untenable. Because of its nature and its complex interplay with industry, the economy, and society, technology is no longer neutral. This change is being driven by the pervasiveness of data, which today are generated everywhere at an unpreceded pace because several technologies are currently reaching maturity.