The rise of data and the death of politics

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/20/rise-of-data-death-of-politics-evgeny-morozov-algorithmic-regulation
Date Written:  2014-07-20
Publisher:  The Guardian
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article

Why is it that the infomation collected from our ever-smarter devices can only measure effects, and not deal with causes?