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The combined work of Turing and Shannon shaped today's "information society", and founded it on a new metaphysics to which we've become so accustomed that we see it as something obvious and natural. But covertly it was set up to be machine-oriented instead of human-oriented, from the very beginning. To highlight the aberrations and hazards of this culture, and what it entails for us humans to live in a machine-biased habitat, in this paper I take help from the lucidity of Karl Marx. As I show with examples from various works, certain topoi of Marx's critique of the political economy of his time can be rewritten by substituting a few keywords, producing a surprisingly relevant analysis of the information society and the role that data and Artificial Intelligence play in it. The explanation for this strange phenomenon stems from the fact that information can be seen as the current upgrade of marxian money, a dehumanizing abstraction and "automatic fetish" that expands itself independently of human needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]