The power of information has secured our survival and created the modern world … Today there are 98 alphabets in use worldwide. Secret History of Humans X: Information is Power
What Google was doing was gathering vast amounts of data on millions of people without them being fully aware of it … Google was now making billions, and at the heart of it was data. It had become a new gold rush. Adam Curtis, Can’t Get You Out of My Head VI Are We a Pigeon? Or Are We Dancer? ***** BBC 2021
Dominic Cummings worked as a political adviser for the Conservative Party, and he believed that all politicians, left and right, had completely lost touch with the people they claimed to represent … Cummings was fascinated by the founder of Complexity Theory … Cummings wanted to use data and computers to see the underlying patterns in modern society, and then use that knowledge to take power back from the unelected elites who had seized control. ibid.