Scientists warn that the world's capacity to produce information has substantially exceeded its ability to process and store information. [..]. Information is digital, but its volume exceeds our ability to discern its meaning. As the solution to this problem, information scholar Martin Hilbert counsels, "The only option we have left to make sense of all sense of all the data is to fight fire with fire," using "artificially intelligent computers" to "sift through the vast amounts of information... Facebook, Amazon, and Google have promised to... create value out of vast amounts of data through intelligent computational analysis." The rise of surveillance capitalism necessarily turns Hilbert's advice into a dangerous proposition. Although he does not mean to, Hilbert merely confirms the privileged position of the surveillance capitalists and the asymmetrical power that enables them to bend the division of learning to their interests.

— The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff (22%)