Can Big Tech Companies Find A Way To Reward Users For Their Data?

Personal data is the "new oil," in the words of The Economist. And the mining of online data is just the start. Increasingly, the offline world is also a data gold mine. As everything from cars to power plants are added to the internet of things, we're creating additional petabytes of data-rich resources. Companies can use this data to train algorithms that run new types of services, including traffic directions, automated transport networks, and factories that require only a few humans to operate.