As with everything else most of this generated data and its analysis, synthesis is wasted and is totally superfluous.

Each individual, company, nation produces and collects its own data, creating firewalls around them, spying on each other due to the global distrust and paranoia.

Most of the data collected is either for "self-protection" or "against someone", either regarding "personal existence" or "business interest".

We are going to drown in our own information ocean, even planned quantum computers will not be able to digest it, or even if the computers can, we humans will be unable, we are already unable to use what we have generated and collected.

Again the problem is not with the system, or data production/collection capabilities, hardware, but the problem is with the user.

We already have a ready made "super-computer" that could perfectly and efficiently generate and digest all the data we need and always use it the most optimal way.

This super-computer is the "wisdom of the crowd", or a potential human, mutual awareness, mutual mind.

We already have the "hardware" for it, the globally interconnected and interdependent human network, where each of us are like individual workstations, but so far each and everybody is afraid to open up the channels and plug into the main-frame.

It is actually crazy that we are standing in front of the single most important evolutionary step in human history and we not only hesitate to take the last step towards it, but we actually try to run away from this unprecedented opportunity.

Since this is an evolutionary step we do not really have a free choice whether we accept the invitation or not, but we can choose to enter this global human network willingly, in a pleasant, swift and benevolent way, using it consciously in full awareness, or we can be forced by further crisis, collapsing human systems, more and more unsolvable suffering worldwide.