The notion that ignorance and freedom are essential characteristics of capitalism is rooted in the conditions of life before the advent of modern systems of communication and transportation, let alone global digital networks, the internet, or the ubiquitous computational, sensate, actuating architectures of Big Other. Until the last few moments of the human story, life was necessarily local, and the "whole" was necessarily invisible to the "part."

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 1573