Y'all ought to read Rainbow's End, where a Google-alike is trying to OCR all written information to make it accessible online… while shredding the originals in the process. That book was prescient on so many levels.
In-universe reason for that made no sense whatsoever and was nonsense. It was not even an evil organization (this would make sense) but OCR method as described was absurd and would not work.
Same with Accelerando.