Why warm data? What is that? We know what cold data is. That's the stuff I got good at in school, the numbers, the monitoring of metrics, correlations, kilowatts-per-square-meter, how many Blue whales left, cancer rates near pulp mills, time, distance, acceleration. But what about anticipation? What about promise, forgiveness, possibility? How do we account for the un-monitorable, un-measurable, unspeakable? How do we reckon trust or fear, and how do we count instinct or consider hope?

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