DATA IS A BEAUTIFUL WEAPON.

Data is elementary! The greatest fictional analyst of all time Sherlock Holmes said "Data, Data, Data! How can I make bricks without clay ?" Today data is seen as something machines generate but this is not the case. Life is data. We are the Analysts, Architects and Builders. We are the ones who extract it, then load it at speeds faster than light and transform it over and over again, until it becomes the reality that we live.

Data is life. We are the tools it uses to generate further life. Data is the fuel of evolution. The atomic granularity of the data life produces appears to be infinite. We continuously try to prove this using science. For example, if someone smiles at you in the street or kisses you and makes you smile and your heart skips a beat, think of it as a product of data. That person saw you and you being the data that transformed you into their joy and ultimately yours too.

Computers were not the first things to create data. Data has been around since the beginning of time. Come to think of it, time is a transformation of the data we receive from life. So next time you are intimidated by the term Big data, Smart data or even Artificial intelligence, remember that you handle so-called big data every moment of your life and transform it in your inside out reality. Your eyes are the ultimate receivers and transformers of billions upon billions of pieces of data, each moving at lightspeed. Sound is data, touch is data and Love is metadata.

Not only do you receive unlimited data from the world around you but you generate data about that data. Metadata. Being angry is merely metadata about the original data that you collected. I ask myself often. What data about the data you have is contextual to creating a good outcome? You can change your mind by retrieving your metadata and transforming it. Have you ever judged someone incorrectly only later to realise they are not what you thought and then changed your opinion? Your opinion is metadata. Let's not even get into storage, I get freaked out by all this cloud storage that is now available and all the different options you have at different prices.

I have come to realise life is all about relationships, and the management thereof. Do you see where I am going with this?

Yes, relational databases. To a non-technical person, the term seems foreign but the reality is that they, themselves are the original relational database management tool. You create primary keys to life and unique links across myriads of records to form neural highways that get travelled by your thought processes. We are all database administrators of the highest order. This is a Cardinal truth with which we can query our databases to construct the complex code that uses images, sounds, smells and feelings. If I think in relation to a standard (SQL) query that used to intimidate me and then how complex the queries are that I must be issuing against my databases, I laugh at its simplicity.

Think of the routines you process, they are sophisticated multi-faceted stored procedures. However, the great thing about ourselves in relation to the machines is that we are cloud and on premises-based. We can operate using both seamlessly with no need to lift and shift ourselves into the cloud. Out hardware requires maintenance but it is free and heals it's itself. Our code contains bugs but they can be fixed in a thought because our thoughts are our code. We generate this code based on the data we receive and we execute it as we wish.

Now, do you understand why I said data is a Beautiful Weapon? The raw and metadata we collect and issue to others can be used for evil. It could destroy organisations, lives, creatures and nature, by creating an optimally efficient method for cutting down trees or a nuclear weapon could be disastrous. Data, when used well can lead to destruction, it has already if you consider the atomic bomb and the impact it had.

Data is beauty. Think of the most beautiful thing you can and then think that it's actually data you have collected and transformed into beauty. Art is truly magnificent metadata. We create metadata on metadata. When someone tells us someone is bad, and we, in turn, tell someone else based on rumour we are merely creating metadata on metadata and transferring it across our social network.

I could go on forever on this subject but ultimately all I wanted to say is be careful with yourself. You could become a nasty weapon using the data you posses at your fingertips or you could become a beautiful weapon used to create good.

I see now what Datability.World is all about, and the unfound ability that lies within my life. We are all Data Knights sitting at the round table of existence.

Rupert Knight is a Strategist and Tactical Execution professional.