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October 15, 2021

Why Data Is Absolutely Necessary for the Evolution of Humans Part 1

Why Data Is Absolutely Necessary for the Evolution of Humans Part 1
BY: TARTLE

One common misconception of data is that it is out of reach for many of us: a confusing mixture of encrypted numbers, letters, and other symbols that do not really hold any significance for the general populace. However, recent developments have translated these massive repositories of data and made it possible for us to access that only media conglomerates have had before.

As a result, we also have access to parts of ourselves that we used to take for granted, or outgrow, in the past. We have a renewed perspective on individual thoughts and behaviors. The data we have on why individuals think or behave a certain way can help us unravel these complex issues at a fundamental level, and we can work on improving ourselves from the grass roots.

The TARTLE marketplace is an avenue for people to give voice to these thoughts by turning it into data. Beyond the opportunity to earn from your personal experiences, you can also use the platform to work for a bigger cause that is important to you. Furthermore, it is not just you helping others but also about the potential for others to help you as well. The beauty of data is that it can be used for analysis in several different ways. If you do not have the tools or capacity to extract these insights for yourself just yet, then you can work with data professionals on the platform who can do it for you.

How Data Encourages Us to Look Inward

The tech revolution has changed the way we interact with the physical world. We use artificial intelligence and machine learning to reprogram our transportation systems, financial services, social media, and more. However, these are developments that build on the external features of our existence. We have yet to look at how we can capture data at a primary level: our thoughts.  

Collective intelligence has empowered people to speak up for themselves regardless of who they are and where they are located, and communities can band together to start creating tribes of thought. These groups can be measured and analyzed, with data scientists using their findings to adjust the direction at which the tech revolution progresses.

Beyond that, it also allows the people within those tribes to become more self-aware about their individual wellbeing. These data deposits have insights on what they are locally challenged with, which means that people can look into how or why they are affected: what triggers the event, what exacerbates it, and what they can do to manage these thought processes in a healthy manner.

As a community, data is the key to showing different communities how their perceptions or preconceived biases lead to trouble within their locality. It serves as the bridge to solving these problems and finding understanding amongst different groups. 

Clearly, data is more than just a catalyst for the hard sciences. It is our way of advancing in the social sciences as well. We can take that power for ourselves and analyze the data to improve our quality of living as individuals, communities, and as humanity.

Life After Death With Data Sets

At the rate we are going, most of our life experiences are captured and stored in the digital space. In terms of speed, consistency, and accuracy, it’s clearly the superior way of retaining human knowledge in comparison to word of mouth and paper. There is no need to worry about human error or the cost of maintaining a printing press. 

It is interesting to think that data, which is intangible and stored in a virtual space, is derived from physical events and goes on to influence physical events as well. Data is a medium capable of capturing experience, thought and life—even long after the data source passes away. 

What are the implications of this on the human experience? Having most of our lives recorded in data packets means that we can continue to have an impact on future generations in more tangible ways. Our lives on earth have more potential to have a bigger impact even after our passing, because our data perseveres beyond the memories of our family, friends, and written documents. 

Closing Thoughts: Data and Its Effect on Human Consciousness

Alex mulled over his belief of a future where everything is captured by technology. All our actions and decisions are subject to analysis, down to the smallest details—and the people on the ground are directly sharing in the experience of this analysis. With so much information in humanity’s hands, our future selves may feel pressured to take on the responsibility of using this data for the better. 

Do we have it in us to actively work on the pursuit of decisions, activities, and experiences that increase our lifespan— and by consequence, increase the probability of us evolving at a more accelerated rate? Only time will tell.

Without us knowing, the technologies we use collect crucial information about our life experiences on a day to day basis. The TARTLE marketplace is an opportunity for you to reclaim that data and to work for a bigger cause.

What’s your data worth? Sign up for the TARTLE Marketplace through this link here.

Summary
Why Data Is Absolutely Necessary for the Evolution of Humans Part 1
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Why Data Is Absolutely Necessary for the Evolution of Humans Part 1
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One common misconception of data is that it is out of reach for many of us: a confusing mixture of encrypted numbers, letters, and other symbols that do not really hold any significance for the general populace. However, recent developments have translated these massive repositories of data and made it possible for us to access that only media conglomerates have had before.

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TRANSCRIPT

Alexander McCaig (00:08):

Oh, sorry.

Jason Rigby (00:09):

He's dying.

Alexander McCaig (00:09):

There's a coffee going down the wrong pipe.

Jason Rigby (00:11):

Yeah. You got incense burning and then you're coughing. It seems awful suspicious.

Alexander McCaig (00:16):

Awfully suspicious. There's things going on here. The book of David.

Jason Rigby (00:22):

That's for other podcasts.

Alexander McCaig (00:24):

Okay. So this seems absolutely necessary, this episode.

Jason Rigby (00:30):

Yes. It's absolutely necessary. So I want to get into a little bit more. Yesterday we talked about this, a little bit more of the philosophy of data and the philosophy of TARTLE. Because I think it's important that people understand the importance of data. So let's start off with how we give a voice to data.

Alexander McCaig (00:53):

Data's typically been uncaptured. So, you know how people want to walk around and be heard. Okay, well, they do. They go to big protests or they'll walk with banners on the streets or they'll do sit-ins. They want to be heard. Well, your mind, your thoughts, they want to be heard too. They need to be captured. You capture them, generally what's going on in here just for yourself. But if you're honest and you're doing good things, you want to capture that stuff and share with others. First of all, I always say this, like when I'm driving, I'm like, I wish that person put their blinker on. I don't know what you're thinking. Data captures the aspects of us as human beings that affords us the opportunity to really understand what somebody else is thinking.

Alexander McCaig (01:51):

We've never really captured... Other people have tried to capture it on our path and they've crafted a world around looking at us and then putting that data together-

Jason Rigby (01:59):

Yeah. In a passive aggressive way.

Alexander McCaig (02:01):

In a passive aggressive way, and then defining our decisions. But data, it now has the opportunity to sit with the individual who is creating those thoughts or behaviors. And when you're at that fundamental level, you can fundamentally solve human issues because now we are capturing the things that create those issues, which is all of us as a collective. So data solves humanity's problems.

Jason Rigby (02:36):

Yeah. And I want to get into that a little bit more, but when we think of a voice, like giving a voice, and then I want to use the word significance because I think this is important. There will be people, even now with seven and a half billion people, I don't know how many people commit suicide every day, but it's got to be tens of thousands, I would imagine.

Alexander McCaig (02:57):

Think about how much of that data goes uncaptured to actually know.

Jason Rigby (03:00):

Yeah, exactly.

Alexander McCaig (03:01):

It's hard to tell if somebody wants to commit suicide.

Jason Rigby (03:03):

But when somebody wants to commit suicide, usually their ideas are, I'm worthless, there's no hope, there's no significance to me.

Alexander McCaig (03:13):

So they're having those internal conversations. So what if we gave a voice to that? So somebody else could hear what was otherwise quiet and these people could share it privately. And then through that sharing, we could be like, there seems to be a very negative, non fulfilling path that is going on in this person's mental state. TARTLE gives that data, that capture of those human elements, a voice so it can be heard by others and then thought about and analyzed. And then, help can be brought back to that individual.

Jason Rigby (03:51):

You also have to look at it, because when we take this perspective of data and we take humanity and creating that bridge, which TARTLE does do that, is this collective intelligence and thought.

Alexander McCaig (04:02):

That's all... Listen, TARTLE and data is collective intelligence.

Jason Rigby (04:07):

That's the biggest of big data.

Alexander McCaig (04:09):

It's the biggest of the big. And it's been the prime part of data that we've missed. Our technological revolution up until when TARTLE was founded, had not done one thing about really capturing thing at the primary level, those thoughts at a primary level, collaborative data at a primary level.

Jason Rigby (04:32):

Because when you look at collective intelligence, and we're seeing it now, ideas and thought are traveling faster. We call it going viral. But it's just the speed. It's that speed of thought that can come. And then you have groups of people that get together, create little tribes of thought. And then from there, you have a collective of thought, but that collective of thought can be measured. A collective of thought can be analyzed.

Alexander McCaig (05:01):

And it can be acted upon.

Jason Rigby (05:03):

Yes.

Alexander McCaig (05:04):

Which is fantastic. It also affords that group in their collective of that thought, to come together and look at the information of that group. That collective information then leads to that collective identity, allowing them to work towards things that they are locally challenged with. Data's the log. Whether you have a personal challenge with your emotion or your mental state, or whatever that might be, data can solve that. It can log and remember for you. And then you can go back and reflect on it.

Alexander McCaig (05:39):

If you're a collective and you're having trouble in your local area, whether it's with politics or a conflict with other groups, data can help capture that and find bridges between these things to solve those problems and find understanding amongst groups. Data affords the opportunity to do that. TARTLE leads to that data collective. And that data collective leads to the solves that we need to evolve going forward.

Jason Rigby (06:03):

Especially as you're seeing now, the increasing bandwidth. So, as we began, remember when Microsoft first came out, they were just doing constant updates all the time. But we're seeing that with the infrastructure for bandwidth, so as we've moved to Tingy or whatever, you just said, flawlessly worked your Elon Musk-

Alexander McCaig (06:26):

Starlink.

Jason Rigby (06:26):

Starlink flawlessly works.

Alexander McCaig (06:28):

Yeah. It's fantastic.

Jason Rigby (06:31):

And satellite internet used to be kind of horrific. It was kind of like your last choice in a rural area and it was slow. So now you're having this increased bandwidth. So as we do this and people need to understand that. Data is life experience.

Alexander McCaig (06:46):

Tell me.

Jason Rigby (06:48):

So we're going to get to the point where we're going to have virtual reality. That's just down the road. I don't know if it's 20 years from now or 50 years and Ready Player One, the movie, set you up for that.

Alexander McCaig (06:58):

You know something? Data, when you say data is life experience.

Jason Rigby (07:01):

Yes.

Alexander McCaig (07:02):

It is life experience.

Jason Rigby (07:03):

Yes.

Alexander McCaig (07:03):

Why? Because your life experience is just being captured in an electronic medium. It's data. All of our life experiences... Remember way, way back. It was always stories. Let's share stories. And then a guy comes out with a printing press. It's like, let's put it on paper. Now we're collecting data on paper. Now I had moved this book back and forth. There's the transportation costs, all this other stuff. Jump forward to where we are now, that information, this life experience, is now being captured digitally. And it can move instantaneously. Relatively close to as fast as the speed of light is without whatever the net loss is in that medium. So life experience is in fact data right now in this age, and it will continue to be into the future.

Jason Rigby (07:46):

Well, it's created a virtual data world. But it's not really virtual. We can say it's like virtual reality, but it's not.

Alexander McCaig (07:55):

But the virtual is driving our real world decisions.

Jason Rigby (07:58):

Yes.

Alexander McCaig (07:59):

That is what's obvious. So data, the intangible, the virtual, drives what happens in the physical, the real out here. And that doesn't mean data isn't real. Data just captures experience. It captures thought. Data defines life.

Jason Rigby (08:15):

Well, it's even more than that. We, the data source dies, but data lives forever.

Alexander McCaig (08:21):

Yeah, of course. That's an interesting... I was on a call the other day with a gentlemen and it was geared more towards healthcare data. I think he might have taken what we were saying as like a threat to his business model. And I was just trying to be very symbiotic about it. Like rising tide lifts all ships. He's like, "Yeah, but there's one thing you can't do." I'm like, "What's that?" "You can't analyze dead people. We can." Okay, great. I got to tell you something though. They're dead and I'm only interested in what's alive and what's directly in front of me, because that's an absolute fact. And you can continue to guess on a dead person's body. Oh, this is what killed them. It's never just one thing that kills them. It's a combination. And you'll never understand that combination that led to that death after the fact.

Jason Rigby (09:13):

Well, what led to the death was the data life experience.

Alexander McCaig (09:15):

That's correct. It was a life experience. And how much of that life experience was captured? What we find today is that almost 90% of our life experience is 100% captured with data. Do you remember when digital cameras first started coming out?

Jason Rigby (09:31):

Oh yeah.

Alexander McCaig (09:31):

And they have the little tiny ones that always had a flash going, really bad quality. They fit in your pocket. Everybody was amped up about it. There was metadata. We're capturing stuff. And then social media comes out. It's like, I can take those pictures and I can house them on the internet and share them instantaneously with everybody.

Jason Rigby (09:48):

With a timestamp and a GPS location.

Alexander McCaig (09:50):

Oh, this is getting very interesting. So life experience is that data.

Jason Rigby (09:55):

So, as we look at data evolving, in correspondence, if we had a graph, it would be evolving with human consciousness. And so when we have this evolving human consciousness, we have this data life experience. So in this evolving human consciousness data experience, what does it look like whenever we look to the future, three years from now, five years from now, ten years from now, as humanity evolves to a point where we have everything about us recorded, written, like you said, how they would write books or whatever. You would be teaching and then they would just write it down.

Alexander McCaig (10:45):

Correct.

Jason Rigby (10:46):

Well, we have way more. We have volumes and volumes of books about us written about us right now.

Alexander McCaig (10:55):

And so this is how I see the future. Everything becomes captured. Everything becomes analyzed, down to the most minute details. And we will directly share in the experience of that analysis. The question at the end of the day for all of us will be, now that you have an answer, are you willing to act upon it? And that boils down to a question of responsibility. When data shows you the light, which it will, through your own habits and actions as a singular person, or as a collective, the question is, will you or you and the group take on the responsibility to act in the future on the information that is truthful at hand in front of you offering you a solution?

Alexander McCaig (11:48):

And I'll give this specific point. People know that doing things that aren't good for them will not increase their lifespan. That's obvious. Smoking, eating poorly, obesity, driving a car fast.

Jason Rigby (12:11):

That's who killed COVID. Not the driver car fast, but... So it's all esoteric. We know it's bad for us. We know going through the McDonald's drive through is bad for us, but-

Alexander McCaig (12:20):

Right. And the data shows us that, but are we responsible enough in our level of collective consciousness within our evolution to say that we should not continue to pursue things that decrease the probability of our lifespan, and on top of that, decrease the probability of us evolving at a more accelerated rate?

Jason Rigby (12:42):

Well, I want to give an example of this because I think this is very, very, very important about changing our life experience, how data does. So we'll use McDonald's and then let's use WOOP. So WOOP has a cool thing on there when you drink alcohol. So data becomes real and it literally changes your life experience because when you, for me, with WOOP, the whole idea of seeing me go to the red for the next day, and sometimes the other day, it would take me, after I drink like two or three IPA's, beers which I love.

Alexander McCaig (13:18):

Bombs.

Jason Rigby (13:19):

Yeah. Delicious. I would see visually red and then I would see yellow and then it finally went to green. And it would ask me every morning, did you drink alcohol? And then how many. That repetition of seeing that data visually changed the way... I used to not have an issue because it was esoteric. It was in the sense of, yeah, I know. My head hurts a little bit. I can drink some caffeine. I'm fine.

Alexander McCaig (13:51):

But it's too nebulous. Whatever, I can just get over it.

Jason Rigby (13:53):

But when the data begins to... When you go to McDonald's drive-through and we have the ability to be able to show you that that cheeseburger that you ate fucked you up for three days, it raised your blood pressure.

Alexander McCaig (14:05):

It spiked your insulin.

Jason Rigby (14:07):

It spiked your insulin. And now all of a sudden you have these gauges, these virtual gauges on your phone, that's all in the red because you had one cheeseburger. I think data, when we get this visual representation of data, I think it's going to change the way that we act. And you're 100% right because now it's like, okay, you're pegging in the red. You've been pegging in the red for months. Every time you smoke a cigarette, here's what happens. So when we can see that, when you go to the cardiologist, they do that now. How many reports do they run? They take blood work. They have you run through a machine. They put dye in your heart. They'll get like 10 different reports.

Alexander McCaig (14:51):

Yeah.

Jason Rigby (14:51):

And he comes back to you-

Alexander McCaig (14:53):

The works, yeah.

Jason Rigby (14:53):

He comes back to you and says, "Hey, you need to stop smoking. You need to lose weight."

Alexander McCaig (14:57):

How many though? And then what happens? Talk about what happens.

Jason Rigby (15:01):

People change for a little bit, and then they're-

Alexander McCaig (15:02):

And then they don't. And then what happens? You go back in, you've got to get a bypass, single, double, triple, quadruple. Or you just end up dying. People won't change their habits.

Jason Rigby (15:12):

No, no. Even if the data's in front of them.

Alexander McCaig (15:13):

They refuse to pay attention to this because they don't understand... Is it a lack of appreciation for life, their own life?

Jason Rigby (15:22):

That's what I'm saying when we involve the human consciousness through data.

Alexander McCaig (15:25):

Right. And so when you-

Jason Rigby (15:26):

Will it evolve?

Alexander McCaig (15:27):

Of course it will evolve. It will continue to remind you. Truth reminds you. You can only push it away for so long, but it will receive its due course in time. And you will bear the weight of your ignorance towards truth. It's bound to happen. And if you don't want to respect the fact that you have said in a series of events, causes an effect, actions, captured by data that are screaming at you, blue in the face every single day, and you continually choose to ignore them, there's only one person who's responsible in the end. That's you.

Speaker 4 (16:14):

Thank you for listening to TARGLE cast with your hosts, Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future and source data defines the path. What's your data worth?