There was a good provocative keynote on a similar but slight different theme from an O'Reilly big data conference a number of years back by Maciej Ceglowski, "Haunted by Data" which I remember as the "Data is nuclear waste" talk: https://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm
Whenever I rewatch one of many of Maciej's talks (including “Haunted by Data”, “The Website Obesity Crisis”, “What Happens Next Will Amaze You”, “Superintelligence”, etc.), he always strikes me a bit as a digitally-relevant, modern reincarnation of Cassandra...
Also other talks from him: https://idlewords.com/talks/