In the eighties we wanted money; in the nineties through to the noughties we wanted fame, and now, in the age of fake news, bare lightbulbs, twitter ticks and Wikileaks, we want transparency, and we look for it everywhere.
They sound like profound pronouncements, and really, who’s to say they’re not? People find meaning in tea leaves and strings of numbers, why not in the unpredictable outcomes of computer code?