Information

For we all know, or at least suspect, that while more information is terrible for life--it cannot make an afternoon on a cafe terrace better, a smile sexier, or an idea more startling, in fact, it only impoverishes these by interrupting them--it is good for business, though primarily through the systematic invasion of public privacy by rendering all of our actions visible, trackable, systematizable, and capitalizable. (VC 97f)