It all started a few years ago. People didn't understand at first. It looked hap-hazzard.. but now. Now they get it - but even more than that, they're trapped.
One used to be able to expect both freedom and choice. Now they have neither.
It was a kicker too, starting out with a service here, a device there, a bit of infrastructure over there.... but now? Now its one big system. From bit to brick, its all one big pipe - an experience fully enclosed, encapsulated, enumerated, evaluated and.... exploited. For every single bit of information about, well, everything.
They worked their way down the layers. What was once a web service is now the actual physical net.
You cant push a packet without them seeing it.Most people don' care though - they bought into the web services decades ago. Phones were next, then laptops, service providers and frequencies.
Its basically the commercial version of the NSA these days, hell, there hasn't even been a real difference between the two for some time now.
Now, pretty much any connection is provided by them. They started out nice enough... do no evil and all... but when you're the only game in town - it's pretty hard to not abuse your power. Hell, its more than power. Power is limited... omnipotence is not. That's what they are now - omnipotent, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it now, either.
Every spoken word, every communication mashed out from keyboard to carrier is captured in the goog. They pretty much own thought at this point...
One used to be able to expect both freedom and choice. Now they have neither.
It was a kicker too, starting out with a service here, a device there, a bit of infrastructure over there.... but now? Now its one big system. From bit to brick, its all one big pipe - an experience fully enclosed, encapsulated, enumerated, evaluated and.... exploited. For every single bit of information about, well, everything.
They worked their way down the layers. What was once a web service is now the actual physical net.
You cant push a packet without them seeing it.Most people don' care though - they bought into the web services decades ago. Phones were next, then laptops, service providers and frequencies.
Its basically the commercial version of the NSA these days, hell, there hasn't even been a real difference between the two for some time now.
Now, pretty much any connection is provided by them. They started out nice enough... do no evil and all... but when you're the only game in town - it's pretty hard to not abuse your power. Hell, its more than power. Power is limited... omnipotence is not. That's what they are now - omnipotent, and there isn't anything anyone can do about it now, either.
Every spoken word, every communication mashed out from keyboard to carrier is captured in the goog. They pretty much own thought at this point...