As Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, reiterated this week, governments, institutions and companies are garnering vast stacks of personal information through omnipresent CCTVs, credit-card transactions and the like.
He inveighs against religion, finds sexual pleasure by imagining himself a participant in ancient wars and maneuvers around his vast stacks of books.
The cars take second place to vast stacks of speakers, and the asphalt becomes the dancefloor for vibrant community discos, with selectors playing specially recorded dubplate versions of popular songs while an MC provides running commentary.
One where clinicians, IT people and administrators are going to set aside their differences and work together happily ever after to collate vast stacks of error-free data and produce revealing statistics, which lead to the cure of all known diseases.
Vast stacks of sandstone loom over the arid valley of Wadi Musa like giant handfuls of sun-baked clay.
But the sight of thousands of bottles, some stacked in a vast pile, others being corked and labelled on the production line, the rest "riddled" - or turned very slightly every day to bring the sediment into the mouth of the bottle, where it is flash-frozen and removed - and the explanation of exactly where the bubbles come from is worth an hour of anyone's time.
The French seem to have no trouble filling up their shopping trolleys with American-branded washing powder or cheap plastic swimming pools made in China, selected from a vast choice stacked in hangar-like suburban hypermarkets.
High in the mountains of northern Guangxi stretches the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces, a vast network stacked across the hillsides like the tiers of a wedding cake.
CAN's proprietary underwriting algorithms will churn through its vast data stacks of historical merchant demographic, firmographic, psychographic and social and behavioral profiles seeking and seasoning new behavioral and synthetic risk indicators and recombining those indicators into new risk scorecards.
In ODEC's permit application to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, they describe the possibility of "fugitive emissions" and "wind erosion" from the vast ash stacks.
