> Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems.

We can now add one more entry to this. Contagion. Once again all national surveillance mechanism, almighty as they are, didn't make a dent in avoiding a pandemic. They know everything about anybody but either resources are spent on useless errands or political structure is the main bottleneck in nation scale information processing.