It is a tempting privilege to conceive of Tsunamic Cyber as merely a useful tool that can, through the sheer fantastic of its data gathering prowess track us infinitely and thereby force truth into the lies we tell about ourselves.
Were it true...
And this "truthtelling" is felt to be not only in the data, but also in the sumtotal effect of the tidal wave of stories and histories, social memories and ambitions now abundantly on click/touch view everywhere.
But sheer volume, especially in that panning, surface way of those screens, does necessarily not make meaning. Sheer volume does of course (data mining) make money.
For somebody.
Voluminousness, after settling and simmering down, has a weakness. It trends to confection. Of no nutritional value. Leaving us distracted, confused. More chaos.
The aim becomes then (even in the panning): to recognize depths beyond the shallows.
Even as we practice seeing in the flickering light.