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New dark age: technology and the end of future

As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea. The belief that our existence is understandable through computation and more data is enough to help us to build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use our lack of understanding to further their own interests. Despite the apparent accessibility of information, we are living in a new Dark Age. – New Dark Age: Technology and the End of Future. (Bridle, 2018, p. 1)