for quite-More than: mindless accumulation of and Boolean manipulation of, mere 'data'. Let us Save that word, please.
This distinction is as important as the.. say, relationships of data to information, information to knowledge, knowledge to wisdom
--and most importantly: an ability to tell the Difference.
[No, there are No 'algorithms' in that arena for making the process easy for simpletons or the diseased.]

(The Ministry of Truth--preceding 'chronologically' the NSA--was engaged in hourly revising history so as to accord with today's need for a consistent justification for:
all the other goings-on in that little parable.)

Kurt V. could explain it-all lots more colorfully. But he died.

PS: "The Enlightenment", celebrated via its becoming "an Era" happened. But as its principles are today an 'endangered species'
--perhaps soon that "Era" shall be re-Named? Then, if there's a next-generation, it shall never have existed.
And so it Goes.