“What’s Sol Seven?” Dela asked. “It’s nothing you need to know. Just do your job and get the data.” With that, she became completely still as her mind entered the data stream. Dela shifted herself into a comfortable sitting position on a beam, held on tightly to the frame and prepared to follow her friend.

“We’re in,” Khadija said. “Get inside the stream and search for any files labeled ‘Sol Seven.’ The search program will find all instances of those files on the networks right now.”

“Oh, that’s not any money. We could bargain for more, depending on how much the data is actually worth.

Because any moment may be valuable, every moment must be made into data. This is the logical conclusion of our current trajectory: the total enclosure of reality by capital.

we create data whenever we do anything that is mediated or monitored by a computer—which, at this point, is almost everything. Information technology has been woven into the entire fabric of the economy.