Think of all the intelligence corporation have from focus groups, industrial research,

etc. And they don't share this good information with the world but hoard it. Used to be only the Catholic Church that hoarded information back in the day. And that was the dark ages. Are we headed for another dark ages?

"Are we headed for another dark ages?"
Would that not make us all blind?
Is not God Love?
IS not love blind?
Is not Stevie Wonder blind?
Is Stevie Wonder God?

And corporate hoarding of information is not the only sign of it.

You just can't see it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChoicePoint

ChoicePoint (previous NYSE ticker symbol CPS) was a data aggregation company based in Alpharetta, near Atlanta, Georgia, United States, that acted as a private intelligence service to government and industry.<2> It was purchased in February 2008 by Reed Elsevier (parent corporation of LexisNexis) in a cash deal for $3.6 billion USD.
ChoicePoint combined personal data sourced from multiple public and private databases for sale to the government and the private sector. The firm maintained more than 17 billion records of individuals and businesses, which it sold to an estimated 100,000 clients, including 7,000 federal, state and local law enforcement agencies (30 March 2005 estimates).<3>
However, this data had not been secured sufficiently to prevent theft of data on at least one occasion (see below). The company had also been the subject of lawsuits for maintaining inaccurate data, inquiries whether it allowed political bias to influence its performance of government contracts and accused of illegally selling the data of overseas citizens to the U.S. government. ChoicePoint was used to perform consumer and criminal background checks on prospective employees of the Obama administration.<4>...