Not saying its not real, just us pinheads talking about it make it real, if you understand "that" implication.
Computer technologies is amazing, in the sense any thing can be done as fast as the server will allow.
Using FB as example, you have any idea how quickly they shop you around?
If I am looking at something, and they can search it out quicker than I can, and have a vendors ad load onto my viewer faster than I can Google another possibility....... WHOA.
Now politico folk can use any information they want, interpret it, as needed, and sell it to any buyer who can benefit from its so called, data/information.
Until they can actually vote, it can't change anything that a stump speech can't do, just faster perhaps.
But like the stump speech to be effective, you need a willing participant, first, by wanting to listen to that politician, you attend, or wanting data to back up, what you already want to believe.
Does that make it more clear?
No doubt technology will play a bigger and bigger role in all sorts of life....
I saw it first hand while still working at Boeing.
They had these computer based robotics that are suppose to do what man did for many, many years.
Lots of precision drilling, by hand, within 1000th of a inch tolerance, is needed to assemble aircraft.....
Then you have fasteners, etc, that go into these holes.
Machines were designed to do this faster, cheaper, more accurately....
So far, no go, lots of variables that must be factored in the build stream.
Think of a creek, tumbling down from the mountain, it has been there since mankind's earliest days.
It knows its path, and follows that path, 24/7, 7 days a week, 12 months a year, or does it?
One small deviation, can alter much, if that veritable wasn't factored in.
But how do factor in the unknown?
Well, if Trumps election taught us anything, it should be just that, you can't