I loved the editorial. Very inspiring. You get across the sense of power we have in the palm of our hands. It's almost a call to action: you have everything you need - do something.

One thing you can't do (very well): capture data from the past.

For example: Google Street View does a fantastic job capturing images of what a street looks like now, vs. what it looked like 4, 8 or 10 years ago. But not 20 years ago. Or 40 years ago.

I do think that short-termism is a pitfall. If you've only got meaningful data for the last 8 years - that's a very specific economic environment that wouldn't match even the prior 8 years. Forecasting, analytics, etc. can be easily mislead by such a limited timeframe, even while we boggle at how much data there is.