Furthermore, these aggregation systems themselves emerge willy-nilly through something resembling evolution, and not from the visions of some rational planner. Knowledge in this schema is frequently treated as though it were a disembodied “thing,” and consequently human progress comes from the accumulation of information at various technological sites, which then serve to convey the relevant stuff to its decentralized user base.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2102