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Decades ago, the media theorist Vilém Flusser remarked: 'Non-things are currently entering our environment from all directions, and they are pushing away the things. These non-things are called information.'' We are today experiencing the transition from the age of things to the age of non-things. Information, rather than things, determines the lifeworld. We no longer dwell on the earth and under the sky but on Google Earth and in the Cloud. The world is becoming increasingly intangible, cloud-like and ghostly. There are no tangible and arrestable [hand- und dingfest] things. Things are increasingly receding into the background of our attention. The present hyperinflation and proliferation of things are precisely a sign of an increasing indifference towards them. We are obsessed not with things but with information and data. We now consume more information than things. We are literally becoming intoxicated with communication. Libidinal energy is redirected from things to non-things. The result is infomania. We are all infomaniacs now. Object fetishism is probably a thing of the past. We are becoming information and data fetishists. There is now even talk of 'datasexuals'. What becomes of things when they are penetrated by information? The informatization of the world turns things into infomatons, that is, into information-processing actors. The car of the future will no longer be a thing that is associated with fantasies of power and possession, but a mobile 'centre for the distribution of information', that is, an information that communicates with us: 'The car speaks to you, informs you “spontaneously” about its general condition and about yours (it may refuse to function if you do not function well). It gives advice and takes decisions. It is a partner in a comprehensive negotiation over how to live. In a world controlled by algorithms, the human being gradually loses the power to act, loses autonomy. The human being confronts a world that resists efforts at comprehension. He or she obeys algorithmic decisions, which lack transparency. Algorithms become black boxes. The world is lost in the deep layers of neuronal networks to which human beings have no access. Excerpt From Non-Things: Upheaval in the Lifeworld by Byung-Chul Han.