Just say no to digital hoarding

[Commentary] We have become a nation of digital hoarders. And, in developing these digital hoarding instincts, the big technology companies are more than a little complicit. We should rethink how innovation is helping us to deal with our propensity to become digital hoarders. Innovation should be about helping us transform data into information. The next big innovation may be “big data,” which claims that it can make sense of all the new data we’re creating. This may be either brilliant -- helping us find the proverbial needle in the digital haystack -- or disastrous -- encouraging us to build bigger and bigger haystacks in the hope that there’s a needle in there somewhere.