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Birmingham: The New Plantation Owners Don’t Grow Cotton –They Harvest Data

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By David Sher
| comebacktown.com
Randy Hutcheson By Randy Hutcheson Every day, Birmingham residents generate enormous amounts of monetizable digital exhaust — streaming movies, using GPS, storing files in the cloud, scrolling social media, shopping online, and increasingly asking AI to do tasks for us. That data has real monetary value. According to a story in the Baltimore Sun “Your personal data has a dollar value.
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Comeback Town: The Magic City Loop could be Birmingham’s ride into the future

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By David Sher
| AL.com Verified
Comeback Town is an opinion column exploring all things Birmingham. It is coordinated by David Sher. Today’s guest columnist is Eric Thomas. If you care about Birmingham’s future, subscribe to ComebackTown newsletter By Eric Thomas What if you could land at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, step outside, and hop on a tram that carried you straight into the heart of the city — through Uptown, the Civil Rights District, the Parkside, UAB, Five Points, Lakeview, and back again?
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The Magic City Loop: Birmingham’s Ride into the Future

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By David Sher
| comebacktown.com
Eric Thomas By Eric Thomas What if you could land at Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport, step outside, and hop on a tram that carried you straight into the heart of the city — through Uptown, the Civil Rights District, the Parkside, UAB, Five Points, Lakeview, and back again? No rideshare surge pricing. No parking deck. No white-knuckling it through construction on I-20. Just Birmingham, unfolding outside your window, stop by stop.
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