For those who seek surveillance revenues, dark data represent lucrative and necessary territories in the dynamic universal jigsaw constituted by surveillance capitalism's urge toward scale, scope, and action. Thus, the technology commmunity casts dark data as the intolerable “unknown unknown” that threatens the financial promise of the “internet of things.”

[…] she bakes such stunning murphies—we'll have a penn'orth each for tea; come along, or they'll all be gone.

Now, it is true that both counterfactuals and ability claims can be given analyses in terms of possibilia.

[…] Yet first let me close yonder shutters; the slanting rain is beating through the sash. I will bar up. Are you mad? Know you not that yon iron bar is a swift conductor? Desist.