If democracy is to be replenished in the coming decades, it is up to us to rekindle the sense of outrage and loss over what is being taken from us. In this I do not mean only our ‘personal information.’ 

What is at stake here is the human expectation of sovereignty over one’s own life and authorship of one’s own experience.

What is at stake is the inward experience from which we form the will to will and the public spaces to act on that will. 

What is at stake is the dominant principle of social ordering in an information civilization and our rights as individuals and societies to answer the questions Who knows? Who decides who knows? Who decides who decides? 

That surveillance capitalism has usurped so many of our rights in these domains is a scandalous abuse of digital capabilities and their once grand promise to democratize knowledge. 

Let there be a digital future, but let it be a human future first.