Data Is The Most Valuable Commodity On Earth (subprint.com)

Commodities, such as oil, gold and soybeans, are tangible, real, transportable and tradeable and have been used a means of doing business, hedging risk, investing and even speculating for hundreds of years. Recently though, traditional commodities have experienced lackluster returns for investors whereas a new, non-tangible and only virtually transportable commodity has soared in popularity: data.