ThomasZillow is a database of houses. Uber is a database of cars and riders. YouTube is a database of videos. The Verge’s website is a database of stories. You can go on and on and on. Once you start seeing the world as a bunch of databases, it’s a small jump to feeling like you can control everything if you can just control the data.
The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them.