Bruce Schneier's excellent Seeing Like a Data Structure:

"The ability to see like a data structure afforded us the technology we have today. But it was built for and within a set of societal systems—and stories—that can't cope with nebulosity."

The world is not clean and orderly like data structures imply.^[kb]

Contains an excellent quote from Cory Doctorow: "We can't add, subtract, multiply or divide qualitative elements, so we just incinerate them, sweep up the dubious quantitative residue that remains, do math on that, and simply assert that nothing important was lost in the process."