A product is an object or service, a one-time purchase, but a device is never complete and always engaged, reporting and tuning.
We have moved from products to devices, which capture behavioral surplus, exhaust data, and enhance predictive models. These algorithmic extractions forecast futures but beyond anticipating, they actively manifest their predictions.
All of this is traded in a new marketplace.
Wealth is in the future, not so much predicted as shaped. This reduces risk: programmatic behavior does not anticipate what will come to pass, it assures it.
~ via Shoshana Zuboff