Is big data bad for humanity?

Originally people thought that algorithms based on data would allow for a purely pragmatic and logical approach to numerous aspects of life from employment, to judicial sentencing, to college admissions, to ad targeting, to manufacturing, and beyond.

However, the flaw is that humans are not pragmatic and our needs, motivations, desires, etc. are not logical and are not influenced by logic. So a world driven by Big Data is anti-humanity. It can not allow for chance or surprise, so it forces the society into stagnation and prevents people with new ideas from reaching their potential.

So did we go wrong? Has big data turned into the warden of a logic prison that the human soul has been imprisoned within?

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Big data refers to the aggregation of data points from every aspect of your life, painting a granular picture of behaviors and outcomes. There has never been a time before where reliable data could be collected on everybody on Earth and be so detailed as to paint a full picture of each person. That is why we need the term Big Data rather than some off-brand, cobbled-together bullshit like "inferential statistics"(lol wtf).